US Patent Issued to Google on March 18 for "Methods and systems for user adjustable region based brightness settings" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,151, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for user adjustable region based brightness settings" was invented by Tianfan Xue (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Samuel William Hasinoff (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rachit Gupta (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes displaying, by a graphical user interface of a computing device, an image comprising a target region. The target region may be smaller than an entirety of the image. The method includes providing, by the graphical user interface, a user-adjustable control to adjust a desired local brightness exposure level for...