US Patent Issued to Roku on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for controlling lighting in a viewing area of a content-presentation device" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,989, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for controlling lighting in a viewing area of a content-presentation device" was invented by Hugo du Plooy (San Jose, Calif.), Kenny Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Erwin Bellers (Fremont, Calif.), Sunil Ramesh (Cupertino, Calif.) and Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes receiving video content comprising a first data portion comprising parameters that control a visual appearance of frames of video content presented by a content-presentation device. The content-presentation device is communicatively...