ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,671, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Image conversion to lighting control map for peripheral device" was invented by Jung-Hao Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Chan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Hao Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Carl Ng (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Chih-Hung Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is electronically connectable to a peripheral device. The computing device may convert an image into a lighting control map and output the lighting control map to the peripheral device. The peripheral device controls lights on the peripheral device in a ...