ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,434, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Detecting stationary regions for organic light emitting diode (OLED) television (TV) luminance reduction" was invented by Joonsoo Kim (Irvine, Calif.), Kamal Jnawali (Tustin, Calif.) and Chenguang Liu (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes adaptively adjusting a detection time interval based on stationary region type of one or more stationary regions and a scene length in a video. The method further includes tracking pixels of the one or more stationary regions from...