ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,688, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Projection-type display apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Komuro (Azumino, Japan), Kazuhisa Mizusako (Shiojiri, Japan) and Toru Aoki (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection-type display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, an optical path shift element, and a display control circuit that controls the liquid crystal panel and the optical path shift element. When a difference in gray scale level between pixel data corresponding to a panel pixel p11 and pixel data corresponding to a panel pixel p12, the panel pixel p11 and the panel pixel p12 be...