ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,379, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"Display device and method of controlling backlight" was invented by Kouichi Ooga (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a backlight including a plurality of backlight blocks, a display panel configured to display an image with light from the backlight, and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire a video frame, determine gray-level feature values to be associated with the plurality of backlight blocks from gray levels of pixels specified in the video frame, determine emission amounts for the pl...