ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,958, issued on March 17, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Device and method for transition between luminance levels" was invented by Erik Reinhard (Hede-Bazouges, France), Pierre Andrivon (Liffre, France) and David Touze (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are described for outputting video content for display on a display. At least one processor displays a first video content on the display, receives a second video content to display, obtains a first luminance value for the first video content, extracts a second luminance value from the second video content, adjusts a lumi...