ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,547, issued on May 19, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multimedia player displaying operation panel depending on contents" was invented by Yoshihiro Machida (Yokohama, Japan), Nobuhiro Tsutsumi (Yokohama, Japan) and Kouji Kamogawa (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear conten...