ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,923, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"High luminance projection displays and associated methods" was invented by Gerwin Damberg (Vancouver, Canada), Martin J. Richards (Gig Harbor, Wash.) and Craig Todd (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Projection displays include a highlight projector and a main projector. Highlights projected by the highlight projector boost luminance in highlight areas of a base image projected by the main projector. Various highlight projectors including steerable beams, holographic projectors and spatial light modulators are described."

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