ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,602, issued on April 8, was assigned to Saturn Licensing LLC (New York).

"Reception apparatus, reception method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method" was invented by Hiroaki Eto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshinori Kizukuri (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The appearance of a display image of image content is made appropriate without particular user operation irrespective of viewing environment changes.A reception unit receives image content. A processing unit performs image quality adjustment processing on the received image content on the basis of metadata for image quality adjustment depending on viewing environment in...