ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,700, issued on April 22, was assigned to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).
"Controlling characteristics of light output from LED walls" was invented by Michael Zink (Altadena, Calif.) and Michael Smith (Hermosa Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-generated scene is generated as background for a live action set, for display on a panel of light emitting diodes (LEDs). Characteristics of light output by the LED panel are controlled such that the computer-generated scene rendered on the LED panel, when captured by a motion picture camera, has high fidelity to the original computer-generated scene. Cons...