US Patent Issued to OpenTV on Sept. 30 for "Overlay contrast control in augmented reality displays" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,826, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to OpenTV Inc. (San Francisco).

"Overlay contrast control in augmented reality displays" was invented by John Tinsman (Fallbrook, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide systems and methods for overlay contrast control in augmented reality displays. In an example method, contrast enhancement data including data describing at least a portion of a background image for presentation under an informational overlay on a display device is accessed. The informational overlay includes at least one of a graphical element or a textual element to partially obscure a scene. Data ide...