ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,614, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Display apparatus and compensating method of image data" was invented by Chuang-Cheng Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Wen-Chin Cheng (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hsiao I Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chun-Hung Lin (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compensating method of image data is provided. The compensating method includes: calculating a polarity accumulation time of a positive polarity and a negative polarity of the image data; and determining whether to compensate a voltage polarity of the image data according to the polarity accumu...