ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,052, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Display control device for displaying combined vehicle-mounted camera images with aligned vehicle icon" was invented by Sho Horiuchi (Toyota, Japan) and Yoji Ichikawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The display control device displays captured images around a host vehicle captured by a plurality of vehicle-mounted cameras on a display unit. The display control device includes an image combining unit configured to combine the captured images of the plurality of vehicle-mounted cameras to generate a combined image, and an icon combining unit con...