US Patent Issued to Maxell on April 22 for "Reception device, display control method, transmission device, and transmission method for program content type" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,326, issued on April 22, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Reception device, display control method, transmission device, and transmission method for program content type" was invented by Satoshi Otsuka (Hitachi, Japan) and Sadao Tsuruga (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Previously, users could not be notified when the 3D mode type of a program being received by a digital broadcast receiver was not compatible with the digital broadcast receiver. A reception device is provided with: a reception unit which receives program content including video information and identification information including information f...