ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,015, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Display device" was invented by Takafumi Miura (Sakai City, Japan), Masamitsu Kobayashi (Sakai City, Japan) and Yasuyuki Togashi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first display pattern in which first input data corresponding to a first image is a first highest gray scale and second input data corresponding to a second image is a second lowest gray scale, a control unit sets the second lowest gray scale as display data of the second image, and in a second display pattern in which the first input data is a first lowest gray scale and the sec...