ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,061, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Dimming device and display device" was invented by Yoshihisa Ooishi (Kanagawa Ken, Japan) and Shoichi Ishikawa (Kanagawa Ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dimming device includes a controller that performs control to apply any of a plurality of pattern voltages having predetermined voltage waveforms to each of a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes of a dimming panel including a dimming layer, according to a gradation of each of the plurality of dimming regions. The controller selects a pattern volta...