US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Systems on Sept. 22 for "Local dimming processing algorithm and correction system" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,012, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Continental Automotive Systems Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Local dimming processing algorithm and correction system" was invented by Daniel Cashen (Troy, Mich.), Sebastian Wolfarth (Babenhausen, Germany), Ulrich Kabatek (Babenhausen, Germany), Thomas Knieps (Hanau, Germany) and Rodrigo Ramos Cruz (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing full array local dimming to a display comprises performing an image processing algorithm with a processor having instructions for: determining a new pixel value for each of a plurality of pixels of the image, mapping the new p...