ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,888, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Display system" was invented by Kazunari Tomizawa (Tokyo), Kentaro Okuyama (Tokyo) and Junji Kobashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a display system includes: a display panel having a display area provided with pixels and configured to allow a user to visually recognize a background transmitted through the display area; a light source configured to emit light toward a side surface of the display panel; a signal processing circuit configured to generate input gradation values and output either first gradation values that are the input g...