ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,144, issued on June 3, was assigned to Nippon Seiki Co. Ltd. (Niigata, Japan).

"Display control device, display device, and display control method" was invented by Masaki Katagiri (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to achieve a HUD display that is easy for an occupant to see while reducing a sense of discomfort by limiting obstruction of actual scene visibility. A display control device 700 includes a control unit 701 that controls a visibility level and a display state of a display object, wherein, in a case of performing a low-visibility process for setting the visibility level of the display obj...