ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,061, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Correcting imagery with differential applied scalars" was invented by Kyle William Hershey (Seattle), Scott Robert Piecuch (Seattle) and Ying Zheng (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is the differential application of scalars to compensate pixel degradation. Input image data is associated with a commanded luminance at each of a plurality of pixels. A degradation value is determined for each pixel. Based on the degradation value, an elevated drive current is determined to produce commanded luminance at the pixel. A r...