ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,951, issued on June 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, display system and image processing method" was invented by Maho Hayashi (Tokyo), Sachiko Nishide (Tokyo), Miyuki Shirakawa (Tokyo), Tomonari Murakami (Tokyo), Akio Suzuki (Tokyo), Asami Yamagishi (Tokyo), Koji Nagata (Tokyo), Seishi Tomonaga (Tokyo), Tetsuo Ikeda (Tokyo), Toru Nagara (Tokyo), Hiroshi Takeuchi (Tokyo) and Takashi Takamatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image processing apparatus to optimize a mode of a screen for watching content. The image processing apparatus includes a shape determination unit that...