ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,178, issued on March 4, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Projection apparatus, projection method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Naoya Okamoto (Yokohama, Japan), Ryosuke Nakagoshi (Yokohama, Japan), Shinji Kikuma (Yokohama, Japan) and Shigeru Maruyama (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection apparatus projects an image on a screen based on input data including information on absolute luminance. The projection apparatus includes: a peak luminance value acquisition unit configured to acquire a peak luminance value on the screen when the projection apparatus projects an imag...