US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING on June 30 for "Signal reshaping for high dynamic range signals" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,850, issued on June 30, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Signal reshaping for high dynamic range signals" was invented by Robin Atkins (Vancouver, Canada), Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.), Taoran Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jaclyn Anne Pytlarz (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method to improve backwards compatibility when decoding high-dynamic range images coded in a wide color gamut (WCG) space which may not be compatible with legacy color spaces, hue and/or saturation values of images in an image database are computed for both a legacy color space (say, YCbCr-gamma) and a preferred ...