ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,357, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device for outputting a 3D image and method of controlling the display device" was invented by Rang Kyun Mok (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Young Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Gi Seok Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jae Joong Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Beom Shik Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Wan Park (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a display device includes rendering a plurality of viewpoint images, generating a plurality of sub-images based on the plurality of viewpoint images and a plurality o...