ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,717, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Bit plane dithering apparatus" was invented by Jeffrey Kempf (Dallas), Aravind Lakshminarayanan (Frisco, Texas) and Jonathan Lucas (Frisco, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, includes a controller configured to obtain, for an image frame stored in a frame memory image, data associated with a color component and generate dithered bit planes having a dither noise pattern, the dithered bit planes including time repeated bit plane sequences in the image frame. The system also includes a spatial light modulator (SLM) coupled to the controller. The SLM is c...