ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,630, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Nichia Corp. (Anan, Japan).
"Luminance control of backlight in display of image" was invented by Masahiko Monomoshi (Itano-gun, Japan) and Taketoshi Nakano (Itano-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image display method includes generating luminance data, correcting the luminance data, generating gradation setting data, and controlling a backlight to operate based on the luminance setting data and a liquid crystal panel to operate based on the gradation setting data. The luminance data indicates a luminance value for each light-emitting region of the backlight and is generated based on...