US Patent Issued to Nippon Seiki on June 23 for "Head-up display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,984, issued on June 23, was assigned to Nippon Seiki Co. Ltd. (Niigata, Japan).

"Head-up display device" was invented by Kozo Nishizawa (Niigata, Japan), Yuji Inosaka (Niigata, Japan) and Kazunari Hamada (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-up display device comprises a housing, a translucent cover, a display unit that displays an image, an optical system, and an imaging unit that is provided outside a path of display light of the image within the housing and has a light emitting element and an imaging element. When seen in plan view from above, the housing is disposed between a display light passing region through w...