ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,917, issued on May 27, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Mobile content viewing device and content viewing method" was invented by Naohisa Takamizawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile content viewing device plays and displays content on a display, stores a scene and a time in which the content is played and displayed, acquires a measured value of a light quantity sensor, compares the measured value with a predetermined natural light threshold value if determined the measured value is equal to or greater than the natural light threshold value, suggests re-viewing in ...