ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,236, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING COPRORATION (San Francisco).

"Image optimization in mobile capture and editing applications" was invented by Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.), Harshad Kadu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tsung-Wei Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jon Scott McElvain (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Samir N. Hulyalkar (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "HDR color patches are sampled throughout an HDR color space parameterized by a parameter. Reference SDR color patches, input HDR color patches and reference HDR color patches are generated from the sampled HDR ...