ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,687, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Rui Nabeshima (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus determines whether or not a display mode of a display device has been switched from a first mode to a second mode, and the first mode and the second mode being different from each other in term of visibilities of an ambient state around a user or the first mode and the second mode being different from each other in term of whether or not an ambient state around the user is visible. In a case where the ...