US Patent Issued to Distance Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Detection and mitigation of visibility impairments in heads-up displays" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,811, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Distance Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Detection and mitigation of visibility impairments in heads-up displays" was invented by Thomas Carlsson (Vantaa, Finland), Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland) and Urho Konttori (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a tracker, a display, an optical combiner, at least one camera, and at least one processor. The optical combiner is arranged on an optical path of the display and on an optical path of a real-world light field of a real-world environment, and includes a semi-reflective surface. The camera is arranged facing the semi-refle...