US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS on Aug. 25 for "Image sticking prevention method and system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,776, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Image sticking prevention method and system" was invented by Wei-Yi Hsuan (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yihsin Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Wen-Fu Tsai (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yin-Chen Chou (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe techniques for mitigating or preventing image sticking in a display screen (e.g., a LCD or plasma display). In one embodiment, the pixels in the display screen are assigned to different groups. During a first time period, the display turns off a subset of the pixels in ea...