US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 22 for "Maximum speed informing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,661, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Maximum speed informing device" was invented by Yuichi Ishiyama (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The maximum speed informing device includes a camera device that acquires image data by capturing a scene in front of the vehicle, a display unit configured to be able to display the maximum speed, and a controller configured to be able to change the maximum speed displayed on the display unit, the controller acquires a numerical value included in the captured scene as a maximum speed candidate based on the image data, acquires road structure inf...