ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,840, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Mie, Japan).
"Display apparatus" was invented by Atsunori Nagato (Kameyama, Japan) and Takashi Sasaki (Kameyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a display panel that includes a liquid-crystal panel and a backlight arranged behind the liquid-crystal panel, and a controller that controls a luminance of the backlight and a transmittance ratio of the liquid-crystal panel. The controller is configured to: when a refresh rate at which an image is displayed on the display panel is switched, vary the luminance of the backlight such that ...