US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 16 for "Terminal apparatus, method of operating terminal apparatus, and system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,600, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Terminal apparatus, method of operating terminal apparatus, and system" was invented by Tatsuro Hori (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Mina Funazukuri (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller receives, from another terminal apparatus, information for generating a 3D model that represents a participant who participates in an event in a virtual space using the other terminal apparatus, generates the 3D model in a fo...