ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,427, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device and method, and image display apparatus, and program and recording medium" was invented by Toshiaki Kubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion table is generated from an average luminance value, a histogram, and a peak luminance value of an input image, and is used for conversion of the input image to generate an output image, for display at an image display. The conversion table has a feature by which, when the input gradation value is equal to the peak luminance value, the gradation value of the output image is made to b...