ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,348, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Display control apparatus" was invented by Tomohito Yamasaki (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Susumu Sekino (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control apparatus includes (i) an acquirer configured to acquire a notification, (ii) a generator configured to generate a virtual object corresponding to the notification, (iii) a display controller configured to display the virtual object in a virtual space in which a first user exists, (iv) a determiner configured to determine whether a distance between the virtual object and the first user is equal to or less t...