ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,364, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Video display device for synthesizing a bird's eye view video" was invented by Masaya Muramatsu (Toyota, Japan), Yuki Yamamoto (Toyota, Japan) and Kohei Maejima (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video display device includes: a camera configured to capture video of surroundings of a vehicle; a storage unit configured to store the video captured by the camera as past video; a control unit configured to select video to be synthesized from real-time video captured by the camera and the past video stored in the stor...