US Patent Issued to AUO Display Plus on May 19 for "Display device and backlight compensation method using area peak luminance of adjacent lighting regions" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,266, issued on May 19, was assigned to AUO Display Plus Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Display device and backlight compensation method using area peak luminance of adjacent lighting regions" was invented by Po-Kun Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chia Sheng Chu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chia Chia Li (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Ren-Wei Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device has a backlight module with a plurality of light-emitting units. The light-emitting units are divided into a plurality of groups, and each group constitutes a lighting region. A backlight compensation method includes performing a local dimm...