ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,568, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle display device" was invented by Yoshihisa Yamada (Shizuoka, Japan) and Terukazu Kuboyama (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle display device includes an image display device in which an upper display area is disposed to face an eye point of a vehicle, a combiner, an accommodating part that accommodates a lower display area of the image display device and is formed with an opening, and a reflective member that reflects the lower display area toward the combiner. When viewed from the eye point, a first image, which is an image of the opening ref...