ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,860, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AUO Display Plus Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Display and backlight compensation method thereof" was invented by Po-Kun Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ai-Ling Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting-Ting Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ren-Wei Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display and a backlight compensation method thereof are provided, wherein the display includes a backlight unit and a driving unit, and the backlight compensation method includes: providing a gamma value of the display; performing local dimming of the backlight unit according to the gamma value; obtaining an area peak luminance...