ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,631, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Macroblock Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Dimming method and current driving device" was invented by Chi-Min Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chun-Yi Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dimming method is to be implemented by a brightness divider, and includes steps of: (A) determining whether a brightness value is smaller than or equal to a predetermined reference value; (B) when it is determined in step (A) that the brightness value is smaller than or equal to the predetermined reference value, setting a magnitude value that is related to a current generator, and setting a pulse width va...