ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,560, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Macroblock Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Light emission control method" was invented by Ming-Jia Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Cheng Liang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emission control method includes steps of: A) obtaining a number (N); B) obtaining M number of sub-period sequences; C) for a current display period, selecting a first one of the M number of sub-period sequences as a current sub-period sequence, and determining display time unit numbers based on an image grayscale value contained in a to-be-displayed image, the number (N) and the current sub-period sequence; D...