US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 4 for "Augmented view projection of turning lane corners" (Wisconsin, Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,875, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Augmented view projection of turning lane corners" was invented by Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), Heishiro Toyoda (Mountain View, Calif.) and Joshua E. Domeyer (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality system projects a sharp corner image onto rounded corners of turning lanes (e.g., curved ingress, egress lanes) from the eye point of the driver, when in the presence of pedestrian activity. The projected sharp corner image will cause the driver to ...