ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,251, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to EIZO Corp. (Hakusan, Japan).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and computer program" was invented by Hiroki Matsuzaki (Hakusan, Japan), Toru Yoshihara (Hakusan, Japan) and Tomoya Nakamura (Hakusan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes an image data acquisition unit and an image processing unit that executes a frame rate control processing. A plurality of gradations include at least an nth gradation (nless than=0) and an Nth gradation (Nless than=n+2). The target gradation is greater than the nth gradation and less than the Nth gradation. Th...