ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,189, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MACROBLOCK INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Light emission control method capable of alleviating high contrast coupling" was invented by Chi-Min Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ming-Jia Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Hsiang Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Fu-Chuan Ni (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emission control method includes: (A) generating M sub-frames based on an image frame, where, with respect to each of multiple light emitting elements, a sum of partial gray values of the light emitting element that are respectively contained in N ones of the sub-frames is equal to a frame gray val...