ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,181, issued on April 7, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"High dynamic range digital image editing visualizations" was invented by Eric Chan (Belmont, Mass.), Thomas Frederick Knoll (Pacific Palisades, Calif.) and Gregory Paul Zulkie (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high dynamic range editing system is configured to generate visualizations to aide digital image editing in both high dynamic ranges and standard dynamic ranges. In a first example, the visualization is generated as a histogram. In a second example, the visualization is generated to indicate high dynamic range capabilities. In a third example...