US Patent Issued to Harman Becker Automotive Systems on June 30 for "Systems and methods for displaying media content to a user in a virtual setting" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,634, issued on June 30, was assigned to Harman Becker Automotive Systems Inc. (Novi, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for displaying media content to a user in a virtual setting" was invented by Pramod Kembalalu Shadaksharaiah (Ijoor, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes the pairing of a head-mounted virtual reality device with an omnidirectional camera, the display of a converted media field to a user associated with media content corresponding to an external environment relative to a vehicle, the generation of one or more augmented-reality images, and the superimposition of the one or more augmented-reality images ont...