US Patent Issued to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 30 for "Luminance compensation method of motion vector in local dimming" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,071, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Luminance compensation method of motion vector in local dimming" was invented by Chao-Chen Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Tsai-Hsing Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Cheng-Che Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan) and Ching-Wen Wang (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of luminance compensation includes determining a speed of an object according to a PWM (pulse width modulation) table of a current frame and a PWM table of a previous frame; generating a new PWM table according to the speed and the PWM table of the current frame; and performing luminance compensation ...