ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,027, issued on June 17, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Backlight control for display devices" was invented by Hirobumi Furihata (Tokyo), Takashi Nose (Kanagawa, Japan) 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 display panel. The backlight control circuit is configured to apply a filter to a target part of the input image to generate a filtered image part. The target part of the input image is displayed in a corresponding re...