US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 1 for "Information processing apparatus and display control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,575, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and display control method" was invented by Nao Tsuchiya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus obtains information on functions executable on a display target screen. Then, the information processing apparatus hides a first area for a first function that is restricted among the functions in a layout region where to place areas for the respective functions on the screen and displays a second area for a second function that is not restricted in the layout region while changing a size of the second ...