US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 1 for "Circuit and controller for increased bit depth in high frame rate applications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,879, issued on July 1, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Circuit and controller for increased bit depth in high frame rate applications" was invented by Aravind Lakshiminarayanan (Plano, Texas) and Daniel J. Morgan (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described examples include a process that includes illuminating a spatial light modulator at a first illumination level during a first bit-plane and stopping illumination at a beginning of a second bit-plane subsequent to the first bit-plane. The process also includes resuming illumination after a settling period of the spatial light modulator at a second illum...