ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,819, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Distance Technologies Oy (Helsinki).
"Predictive backlight control" was invented by Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland) and Harri Kapanen (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display system and method are disclosed. The display system has a display including a backlight unit that includes a plurality of backlight regions that are individually controllable. The display system further includes at least one processor configured to obtain motion information indicating motion of image content across a sequence of at least two image frames; determine, based on the motion information, a...