ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,848, issued on June 30, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Pixel value mapping method" was invented by Zhiwei Huang (Hangzhou, China), Jianhua Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Yan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel value mapping method, including: determining a to-be-processed image and a mapping table corresponding to the to-be-processed image; performing a table lookup on pixel values of multiple pixels in the to-be-processed image according to the mapping table in parallel to obtain mapped values each corresponding to a pixel of the multiple pixels...