ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,839, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and program" was invented by Kohei Hijikata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control is performed such that an imaging device captures an image of an imaging target located across a projection plane at a timing when light transmission of the projection plane is controlled to be in a transparent state, and a control is performed such that a projection image is projected onto the projection plane at a timing when the light transmission of the projection plane is controlled ...