ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,648, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image display apparatus and method" was invented by Kazuhiko Tanaka (Tokyo), Mitsuo Nakajima (Kyoto, Japan) and Haruhiko Higuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technology capable of suitably correcting a geometric distortion caused by a shape of a curved surface of a screen or the like and obtaining a suitable image easily viewable for a user is provided. A projector is an image display apparatus configured to project an image onto a screen and includes a projection lens arranged at a first position and a camera arranged at a second position. When the scree...