US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Sept. 8 for "Display device, display controlling method, and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,557, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Display device, display controlling method, and computer program" was invented by Mitsuo Okumura (Tokyo), Hazime Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shoji Imamura (Tokyo), Katsuji Miyazawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Motoki Higashide (Tokyo) and Kunihito Sawai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, disables any oper...