ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,479, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle display device, display method, and storage medium" was invented by Akinori Shin (Toyota, Japan), Takahiro Hirota (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Yuting Zhang (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle display device displays a predetermined image at a display region showing a view ahead of a vehicle, and includes a processor. The processor recognizes a travel lane in which the vehicle is traveling, recognizes a position of the vehicle relative to the travel lane, determines whether or not there is a possibility of the vehicle departing from the ...