ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,730, issued on June 24, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Head mounted display apparatus" was invented by Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Kyoto, Japan), Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Hitoshi Akiyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Nobuo Masuoka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head mounted display includes a transmissive display, an image capturing part acquires field of view range image, and an additional information presence/absence analysis part that analyzes the acquired field of view range image, confirms whether there is an information terminal included in the field of view range of user and whether a display image of an i...