US Patent Issued to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 20 for "Method of motion adaptive spatial smoothing for local dimming and system thereof" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,022, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Method of motion adaptive spatial smoothing for local dimming and system thereof" was invented by Tung-Ying Wu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of motion adaptive spatial smoothing includes determining a difference of a block duty of a selected block of a current frame and a block duty of the selected block of a previous frame, generating an original smoothing matrix for the selected block, generating a motion adaptive matrix according to the original smoothing matrix and a difference of the block duty of the selected block of th...