ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,789, issued on May 12, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Ryouhei Yasuda (Tokyo), Yuhei Taki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kunihito Sawai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shimeng Peng (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a line-of-sight information acquisition unit that acquires line-of-sight information about viewers on a shared screen displayed on a display unit, and a line-of-sight guidance display determination unit that determines whether to display line-of-sight guidance for guiding the lines of sight...