US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 17 for "Display control device, display system, and display control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,254, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Display control device, display system, and display control method" was invented by Miki Tsujino (Nagakute, Japan), Masashi Hatanaka (Toyota, Japan) and Makoto Konishi (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The display control device includes a peripheral information acquisition unit that acquires peripheral information around the own vehicle, and a preceding vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires preceding vehicle information of a preceding vehicle traveling in a lane ahead of the own vehicle based on the surrounding information; an adj...