ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,205, issued on March 31, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Tuning of local dimming function" was invented by Hirobumi Furihata (Tokyo), Takashi Nose (Kanagawa, Japan), Akio Sugiyama (Tokyo) and Atul Sharma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tuning a local dimming function includes measuring a first luminance level of a measurement area of a display panel while the display panel is illuminated with four light sources of a backlight device, the four light sources being arranged in two rows and two columns. The method further includes measuring a second luminance level of the measurement area while the...