US Patent Issued to Apple on March 3 for "Displays with locally boosted contrast" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,364, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Displays with locally boosted contrast" was invented by Elizabeth Pieri (Menlo Park, Calif.), Teun R Baar (Culemborg, Netherlands) and Alexander G Berardino (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 standard dynamic range image content may include one or more regions of locally boosted contrast in regions adjacent to high dynamic range image highlights. This prevents the ...