ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,056, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).
"Integrated image reshaping and video coding" was invented by Taoran Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Fangjun Pu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.), Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Walter J. Husak (Simi Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Given a sequence of images in a first codeword representation, methods, processes, and systems are presented for integrating reshaping into a next generation video codec for encoding and decoding the images, wherein reshaping allows part of the images to be coded in a second codeword representat...