ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,555, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Control device for illumination device" was invented by Hitoshi Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a control device includes a touch sensor and a display panel configured to display an adjustment region for adjusting the diffusion degree of each illumination device. The control device is configured to: acquire a target diffusion degree corresponding to a touch detection position in the adjustment region; and execute coarse adjustment processing of adjusting the diffusion degree to be close to the target diffusion degree in steps of a...