ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,579, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image display apparatus and display apparatus" was invented by Nobuhiro Kihara (Tokyo), Katsuyuki Akutsu (Tokyo) and Daisuke Ueda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an image display apparatus that includes an image forming apparatus, an optical element arranged in front of a face of an observer, and a movement control apparatus. When a region situated on the side of the ear of the observer, as viewed from the optical element, is referred to as a region situated behind the optical element, the image forming apparatus is in the region situated behin...