US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 28 for "Imaging state confirmation device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,693, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Imaging state confirmation device" was invented by Kazuma Higuchi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging state confirmation device for confirming an imaging state by an imaging device that images an image of a driver includes a position detection unit that detects a position of a facial image of the driver in an image imaged by the imaging device at an arbitrary point in time, an icon display unit that displays an icon in an arbitrary frame of the display device so as to correspond to a position of a facial image in the image, and a positi...