ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,405, issued on July 1, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Adjusting the brightness of a display" was invented by Ulrich Kabatek (Babenhausen, Germany) and Kai Hohmann (Babenhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting the brightness of a display in a vehicle, to a display system having display electronics that are configured to carry out such a method, and to a vehicle that has a corresponding display system is disclosed. The method comprises selecting a region of the display, the region being defined by a number of pixels that is less than the number of pixels of th...