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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2009
Applicants:
Xiao-fan Feng, Vancouver, WA (US);
Scott J. Daly, Kalama, WA (US);
Dean Messing, Camas, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of backlighting a liquid crystal display so as to improve the quality of the image displayed by the liquid crystal display. The method may vary the luminance of a light source illuminating a plurality of displayed pixels and vary the transmittance of a light valve of the display.