ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,774, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Faurecia IRYStec Inc. (Montreal).
"System and method for real-time tone-mapping" was invented by Jonas Unger (Norrkoping, Sweden), Gabriel Eilertsen (Norrkoping, Sweden) and Rafal Mantiuk (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for tone-mapping an image includes determining a tone-curve based on a model of image contrast distortion between the input image and a tone-mapped image and tone-mapping the input image according to the determined tone-curve. Determining the tone curve includes analytically calculating values of the tone-curve that reduce the image c...