US Patent Issued to Datacolor on Dec. 23 for "Color reference pattern for chrominance evaluation in images" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,861, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Datacolor Inc. (Lawrenceville, N.J.).

"Color reference pattern for chrominance evaluation in images" was invented by Casey Krugman (Lawrence Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a color reference chart for evaluating a chrominance signal of a video image includes a plurality of color samples arranged in an array, wherein the plurality of color samples comprises: a first color sample of a first known, non-neutral hue and saturation and a second color sample of a second known, non-neutral hue and saturation positioned so that at least a portion of the second color sample ...