US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor, Renault on Sept. 8 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,321, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan) and Renault SAS (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Takehito Teraguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention acquires surrounding information of surrounding environment of a vehicle; sets a virtual viewpoint position ahead of the vehicle in a traveling direction; uses the acquired surrounding information and generates virtual surrounding information indicating the surrounding environment at the set virtual viewpoint position; transmits a first con...