US Patent Issued to Synaptics on May 13 for "System and method for variable area-based compensation of burn-in in display panels" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,194, issued on May 13, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for variable area-based compensation of burn-in in display panels" was invented by Kazutoshi Aogaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Nose (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirobumi Furihata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display driver that includes image processing circuitry and a source driver. The image processing circuitry is configured to perform a burn-in compensation to determine a first compensated luminance value for a first pixel in a first area of a display panel based at least in part on a first accumulated luminance value for the first pi...