ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,466, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Circuit apparatus and display system" was invented by Sebdani Mahmood Mazrouei (Markham, Canada), Kwok lap Jimmy Lai (Vancouver, Canada) and Kumar Anandabairavasamy Anand (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit apparatus controls a display apparatus including a plurality of light source elements and a display panel. The circuit apparatus includes a resolution reduction circuit and a light source luminance determination circuit. The resolution reduction circuit generates, from input image data, low-resolution image data having a lower resolution tha...