US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 24 for "Display device, display method, and display program of a vehicle surroundings image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,961, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Display device, display method, and display program of a vehicle surroundings image" was invented by Takashi Ota (Tokyo) and Takahiko Kuwabara (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a steering non-holding recognition unit configured to recognize a steering non-holding state in which a driver of the vehicle does not hold steady a steering wheel of the vehicle based on detection result of a steering sensor of the vehicle; and a display control unit configured to display the vehicle surroundings image on the display unit bas...