ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,396, issued on July 1, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Circuit device and display system" was invented by Sebdani Mahmood Mazrouei (Markham, Canada), Kumar Anandabairavasamy Anand (Richmond, Canada), Stanislav Zaozerskii (Markham, Canada) and Yasutoshi Akiba (Chino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit device controls a display device including light source elements and a display panel. The circuit device includes a luminance analysis circuit and a dimmer circuit. The luminance analysis circuit performs luminance analysis on image data of an input image to output luminance information. The dimmer circuit performs...