ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. RE50,898, issued on May 26, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Head up display apparatus and display control method thereof" was invented by Toshimitsu Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A HUD apparatus, that can achieve favorable AR display by reducing display shift between a real and virtual image, includes: an image input unit that receives an image from a camera and extracts a predetermined object; an information acquiring unit that acquires object information containing the object's position and distance information containing the object's distance in space; an AR image creating unit that creates an AR image...