US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Aug. 25 for "Detecting black bars in video content" (Dutch, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,155, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Detecting black bars in video content" was invented by Bruno Cadoret (Quebec, Canada), Aloys Hubbers (Doetinchem, Netherlands), Judocus Nicolaas Pulles (Hapert, Netherlands) and Jorge Gabriel Squillace (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a plurality of lighting units to render light effects determined based on video content to accompany a rendering of said video content on a display is disclosed. The system comprises at least one output interface and at least one processor, which is configured to: positi...