ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,972, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Display device, image processing device, and display method" was invented by Shoji Noda (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a display to display a function display screen based on device functions; and a controller that controls displaying of the function display screen. The function display screen includes a fixed area where displayed content is fixed and a non-fixed area other than the fixed area. The controller determines a display format of the fixed area in accordance with a display format of the non-fixed area."

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