ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,799, issued on July 22, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Driver circuit and method for compensating pixel values of display pixels" was invented by Zi-Yi Lian (Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Yen-Tao Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit including a controller circuit is provided. The controller circuit is configured to perform an image compensating operation on a display pixel of an image sensing region of a display panel to compensate a pixel value of the display pixel using a first compensating value. The image sensing region is a circular area comprising image sensors. ...