ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,194, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Dual view display" was invented by Mark Larry (Macomb, Mich.), Dongwoo Kim (South Lyon, Mich.) and Biaohe Guo (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to provide direct backlighting to a display device by generating a first image at a first viewing angle during a first time period by energizing an LED zone to a first luminance, controlling a first LCD zone to be at a first transparency and controlling a second LCD zone to be n...