ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,224, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Displays with content-specific headroom" was invented by Elizabeth Pieri (Campbell, Calif.), Teun R Baar (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Jackson K Roland (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be configured to display standard dynamic range image content and high dynamic range image content at the same time. The control circuitry may dynamically adjust an amount of headroom for the high dynamic range image content to avoid washing out the standard dynamic range image content. For example, ...