ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,488, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Display device and display method" was invented by Naohisa Takamizawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a display device 100, a photographing unit 12 is configured to photograph the surroundings of the display device 100, and the recognizing unit 16 is configured to recognize a clock 300 (a real object regarding a time or date) from a result of the photographing. When the recognizing unit 16 recognizes the clock 300, the schedule obtaining unit 11 is configured to obtain schedule information, and the display controller 17 is configured to display and o...