ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,362, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Display device" was invented by Hironori Ito (Tokyo), Naoki Nishimura (Tokyo), Takashi Ota (Tokyo), Hisanobu Inoue (Kawasaki, Japan) and Kana Yamashita (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes an image generation unit configured to generate a status image presented to a driver of the vehicle, the status image representing to a current status of the vehicle and surroundings of the vehicle; a map information acquisition unit configured to acquire the map information and recognize an acquisition status of the map information; a d...