ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,219, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Mode switching in display device for driving a display panel" was invented by Hirokazu Hatayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Takeuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shigeru Ota (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display driver includes a memory, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: in a first mode, update a display panel based at least in part on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; and in a second mode, update the display panel based at least in part on first image data store...