US Patent Issued to Synaptics on July 15 for "Local dimming for panel display devices using one-dimensional (1D) light source array" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,900, issued on July 15, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Local dimming for panel display devices using one-dimensional (1D) light source array" was invented by Masao Orio (Tokyo), Takashi Nose (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirobumi Furihata (Tokyo), Tomoo Minaki (Tokyo) and Kazutoshi Aogaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a backlight device, and a backlight control circuit. The backlight device includes a plurality of light sources configured to illuminate a plurality of zones of a display panel, respectively. The zones are aligned in a first direction, and each zone includes a plural...