ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,645, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus and method of controlling the same" was invented by Hyungsuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungyeol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taeyeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyehoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyukjun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a backlight unit including a substrate and light sources configured to emit light to a liquid crystal panel; and a processor configured to: identify a plurality of dimming blocks, each of whi...