US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "In-vehicle display system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,207, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"In-vehicle display system" was invented by Go Matsunobu (Okazaki, Japan) and Kazuhisa Ishimaru (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle display system includes: an angle estimation unit that estimates, based on an image captured by a camera, an angle provided by a straight line connecting an own vehicle and a preceding vehicle with respect to a front-rear direction of the own vehicle; an inter-vehicle distance estimation unit that estimates an inter-vehicle distance between the own vehicle and the preceding vehicle based on a detection re...