ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,604, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Edge boundary visualization improvement" was invented by Eric Landreneau (Castro Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that improve edge boundary visualization. In some implementations, this involves reducing the appearance of banding that might otherwise be visible by altering the appearance of a pattern that has a gradual change in color, e.g., the appearance of edges between the gradual changes in blues in the sky. In contrast to prior techniques that use random isotropic (...