US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods of eliminating video flicker caused by LED duty cycling to maintain brightness and control power consumption" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,949, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods of eliminating video flicker caused by LED duty cycling to maintain brightness and control power consumption" was invented by Walter A. Martin (Ballymena, Great Britain) and Terry Neill (Lisburn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video camera system includes a video capture device and a camera controller. The video capture device includes a sensor that receives light, a shutter that selectively permits the light to be received at the sensor based on a shutter speed, and a frame processor that gene...