ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,550, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle display system" was invented by Biaohe Guo (Northville, Mich.), Mark Larry (Macomb, Mich.) and Junghua Hsiao (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine an arithmetic mean of red-green-blue (RGB) values in an image frame, determine a luminance fraction as a function of the arithmetic mean, and actuate an edge-lit display screen to display the image frame at the luminance fraction of a maximum luminance. The luminance f...