US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 30 for "Modulating a center aligned PWM pulse applying trailing dither" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,035, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Modulating a center aligned PWM pulse applying trailing dither" was invented by Aaron L. Boyce (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for controlling a pixel of a display using pulse width modulation (PWM). A desired grayscale value for the pixel is processed to generate a binary encoding having a plurality of select bits encoding a select value, and a dither bit encoding a dither value, encoded by a scheme in which a first select value and a first dither value indicate a center-aligned pulse of a first width having a leading edge at ...