ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,026, issued on May 13, was assigned to Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG (Munich).

"Background display device" was invented by Hermann Popp (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A background display device for a virtual image recording studio is configured to display, behind a real subject, a representation of a virtual background for a recording by an associated camera and has at least one panel, which has a plurality of actively illuminating picture elements in a two-dimensional arrangement, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the picture elements to alternately display at least a...