US Patent Issued to Apple on May 13 for "Foveated driving for power saving" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,139, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Foveated driving for power saving" was invented by Omar Hafiz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Baris Cagdaser (Sunnyvale, Calif.), John T. Wetherell (San Jose, Calif.) and Han Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an electronic display includes an active area including a plurality of pixels arranged in columns and a plurality of source drivers driving image data to columns of pixels. The electronic display also includes a first plurality of switches selectively coupling respective source drivers of the plurality of source drivers to one o...