US Patent Issued to Nippon Seiki on Sept. 8 for "Display control apparatus, display device, and display control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,975, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nippon Seiki Co. Ltd. (Niigata, Japan).

"Display control apparatus, display device, and display control method" was invented by Yusuke Sahara (Niigata, Japan), Midori Watanabe (Niigata, Japan) and Hanako Honma (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To ensure stable vision and reduce discomfort caused by the disappearance of an own vehicle mark when approaching an intersection, display control switches from a wide-area to a narrow-area map display. When the vehicle's distance to an intersection exceeds a first threshold, a control unit shows a first map at a wide scale, displaying the ve...