ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,537, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Display apparatus and display control method" was invented by Naoaki Hagiwara (Sakai, Japan) and Yuichi Yoshida (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes: a display that displays an image; a receiver that receives input signals corresponding to an input image; a surrounding environmental data processor that determines a surrounding environmental light condition including information representing a brightness of surroundings of the display apparatus; a backlight illumination ratio determiner that determines, for each of a plurality of ...