US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC MOBILITY on Oct. 20 for "Projection control apparatus to project optical illusion related to caution-related feature and projection control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,537, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC MOBILITY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Projection control apparatus to project optical illusion related to caution-related feature and projection control method" was invented by Keisaku Fukuda (Tokyo), Mitsuo Shimotani (Tokyo) and Tadashi Miyahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A caution-required feature detector in a projection control apparatus detects a caution-required feature that is a feature with a solid shape that impacts on traveling of a subject vehicle. An optical illusion image generating unit generates an optical illusion image that recalls the solid shape of the cauti...