US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Augmented reality interfaces for speed regulation through optical illusions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,486, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Augmented reality interfaces for speed regulation through optical illusions" was invented by Jean Marcel Dos Reis Costa (San Jose, Calif.), Tiffany Litien Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Emily Sarah Sumner (Mountain View, Calif.) and Allison Marie Morgan (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for an unsafe speed intervention system is described. The method includes determining whether an initial speed of a vehicle is unsafe. The method also includes displaying an augmented reality pat...