US Patent Issued to Synaptics on July 21 for "Device and method for controlling backlight light sources" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,818, issued on July 21, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device and method for controlling backlight light sources" was invented by Hirobumi Furihata (Tokyo), Takashi Nose (Kanagawa, Japan), Masao Orio (Tokyo) and Kei Miyazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a plurality of light sources, a plurality of display driver integrated circuits (DDICs), and a light source driver. The light sources are configured to illuminate a display panel comprising a plurality of regions. Each DDIC is configured to generate backlighting data for a respective region of the plurality of regions. The backli...