US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 14 for "Methods and apparatus to control backlight drivers" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,376, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to control backlight drivers" was invented by Xiaoxiao Xu (Shanghai) and Chih Pu Yeh (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example Light Emitting Diode (LED) driver circuitry includes: memory; and programmable circuitry configured to: identify a first LED within a first row of a grid of LEDs; identify a second LED within a second row of the grid of LEDs; turn the first LED off at a first time, the first time based on an update from a first image frame to a second image frame; and turn the second LED off at a second time, the second time...