ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,192, issued on May 13, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX ENTERPRISES Ltd. (Essex, Great Britain).
"Visual assistance" was invented by Jordi Miriam Asher (Essex, Great Britain) and Paul Barry Hibbard (Essex, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program are disclosed. A method comprises selecting, from image data associated with an image of a scene, a subset of image data indicative of characteristics of the scene in at least one obscured region in a visual field of a viewer where the visual field is obscured; and displaying at least one viewer support image, generated based on the selected su...