ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,654, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Circuit apparatus and display system" was invented by Kodai Ishizawa (Munich) and Mitsuo Ishiguro (Chino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A color information extraction section extracts color information from image information. A luminance information extraction section extracts luminance information for controlling the luminance of a backlight based on the color information. A dithering section adds bits for dithering to the lower bit side of the luminance information and outputs the luminance information after the addition to a display apparatus as output lumi...