ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,232, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Displayed image transition" was invented by Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Siuro, Finland), Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Lempaala, Finland) and Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including circuitry configured to: transition from displaying an in-focus image of a first scene to displaying a first alternative image; transition from displaying the first alternative image to displaying a second alternative image; transition from displaying the second alternative image to displaying an in-focus image of a second scene; wh...