ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,576, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BRAINLAB AG (Munich).
"Local dimming of mixed reality glasses in medical environment" was invented by Laura Kern (Munich), Daniel Wilmes (Munich) and Julia Doerner (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed method encompasses performing local dimming of a dimmed area within a display area of mixed reality glasses. The dimmed area comprises a part of the display area on which a virtual object is displayed. While local dimming increases perceptibility of the virtual object, it might impair usability since it blocks real world objects from view. This is avoided by reducing a dimming inte...