US Patent Issued to SATURN LICENSING on April 22 for "Display of retrievable content indicators with category information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,651, issued on April 22, was assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC (New York).

"Display of retrievable content indicators with category information" was invented by Seiji Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoki Saito (Chiba, Japan), Kazuto Nishizawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masao Kondo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect a user's operation, and a display control unit configured to display content in a part including a middle of a display screen and display thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction...