ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,310, issued on July 14.

"Active dimming control using disparity camera images" was invented by Gabor Szedo Becker (Sammamish, Wash.), John Nelson (Redmond, Wash.) and Afsoon Jamali (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide display includes a waveguide, a projector configured to project images (e.g., images to be displayed to a user and/or disparity test images) onto the waveguide, an input coupler configured to couple the images into the waveguide, and one or more output couplers on the waveguide. At least one output coupler of the one or more output couplers is configured to direct the projected images towards the ...