US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "Displays with content-specific headroom" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,581, issued on Oct. 20.

"Displays with content-specific headroom" was invented by Elizabeth Pieri (Menlo Park, Calif.), Teun R Baar (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jackson K Roland (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be configured to display standard dynamic range image content and high dynamic range image content at the same time. The control circuitry may dynamically adjust an amount of headroom for the high dynamic range image content to avoid washing out the standard dynamic range image content. For example, the control circuitry may reduce the amount of headr...