US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Multi-phase linear dithering systems and methods" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,810, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-phase linear dithering systems and methods" was invented by Alexey Kornienko (Watford, Great Britain), Mahesh B Chappalli (San Jose, Calif.) and Pradeep Nagesh (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include an electronic display and image processing circuitry. The image processing circuitry may receive input image data in a non-linear color space at a bit-depth, truncate one or more least-significant-digits of the input image data, generating truncated image data, and determine an alpha value indicative of how many pixel lo...