US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 28 for "Display control apparatus, display control method, and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,977, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Display control apparatus, display control method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Hisanao Funakou (Tokyo), Yoichiro Ito (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Toyama (Tokyo), Hiroaki Miyoshi (Tokyo) and Hisashi Mizumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control apparatus (2000) detects, by using audio data including a sound around a display device (10), a first situation where target information being displayed by the display device (10) can be viewed by a person other than a specific person (30), or detects, by using image data including surroundings of the display ...