ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,379, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle periphery monitoring system" was invented by Takato Masuda (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle periphery monitoring system that displays a captured image including a road surface around a vehicle captured by a camera of the vehicle to a user of the vehicle. The system includes a road surface drawing unit configured to draw, with light, an external notification indication having a predetermined shape on the road surface around the vehicle, and a drawing range recognition unit configured to recognize a drawing range o...