ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,982, issued on April 14, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp..

"Stereoscopic high dynamic range video" was invented by Walter J. Husak (Simi Valley, Calif.), Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.), Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.) and Robin Atkins (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for stereoscopic 3D video are described. Input HDR stereoscopic views in a first codeword representation are merged together by a first merging function to generate an input merged view to optimize a reshaping operation which generates a reshaped merged view in a second codeword representation and associated composer metada...