US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on April 14 for "Display control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,024, issued on April 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Display control device" was invented by Kei Ishiguro (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Tomohito Yamasaki (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Mikio Iwamura (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Masayuki Yokoo (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Fuminori Shinsei (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control device includes a mode detecting unit configured to detect a mode corresponding to a level of understanding of a spatial structure of a real space displayed on a display unit and a control unit configured to control a display mode of a virtual object on the display unit according to the mode detected...