US Patent Issued to Google on March 31 for "Zonal attenuation compensation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,187, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Zonal attenuation compensation" was invented by Hyunchul Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Chien-Hui Wen (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ken Kok Foo (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and techniques directed at zonal attenuation compensation. In aspects, a system includes a graphics processing unit configured to provide image data to a display panel. A zonal attenuation module is configured to combine a zonal attenuation mask with the image data to generate masked image data, the masked image data having a reduced brightness fo...