ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. RE50,921, issued on June 16, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Head-up display apparatus" was invented by Yuki Nagano (Kyoto, Japan), Takumi Nakada (Kyoto, Japan), Maki Hanada (Kyoto, Japan), Akio Misawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Souta Sato (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-up display apparatus displays a virtual image suitably overlapped with actual scenery in accordance with a running condition of a vehicle. The head-up display apparatus acquires various kinds of vehicle information which can be detected by a vehicle and the display of the video image is based on the vehicle information. A mirror is configured to ref...