ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,518, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Air floating video information display system" was invented by Hiroaki Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan), Koji Hirata (Kyoto, Japan) and Koji Fujita (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air floating video information display system forming an air floating video in air, including a video display apparatus configured to display at least a video of one object, a retroreflector configured to form the air floating video in air by retroreflecting video light emitted from the video display apparatus, a sensing system configured to include a sensor for detecting a user's ...