ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,134, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method for displaying a stream of images" was invented by Eberhard Schmidt (Kleinmachnow, Germany), Tom Sengelaub (Berlin) and Christian Villwock (GroBbeeren, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for subsequently displaying a stream of images in a display area of a display device, wherein a first area within the display area is determined around a point of regard. A first image of the stream of images is displayed in the display area such that a first part of the first image, which is displayed in the first area, is displayed according to a fir...