US Patent Issued to BYD on July 7 for "Frozen screen detection method and apparatus, electronic device, and vehicle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,093, issued on July 7, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Frozen screen detection method and apparatus, electronic device, and vehicle" was invented by Xiaofei Dong (Shenzhen, China) and Jiahu Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a frozen screen, includes monitoring a change of a pixel in a video signal outputted to a display screen, and determining whether the display screen is frozen according to the change of the pixel and the policy. The pixel changes based on a policy when the display screen is not frozen."

The patent was filed on Oct. 29, 2024, under Application No. 18/930,912....