ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,684, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image display apparatus and image display method" was invented by Kazue Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuhiro Kihara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Christophe Peroz (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image display apparatus capable of achieving uniform image quality while improving the use efficiency of incident light, including: an image forming unit that emits image light and converts the image light into parallel light for an angle of view; a light guide plate that allows the image light converted by the image forming unit to enter, to travel inside the light guide plat...