ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,758, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Tone mapping for spherical images" was invented by Sandra Vitorino (Antony, France), Violaine Marie Mong-Ian Sudret (Paris), Andrea Eric Petreto (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) and Thibaut Paul Joseph Tortosa (Marseilles, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Obtaining a processed spherical image includes obtaining a first luminance thumbnail image for a first hemispherical input image, obtaining a second luminance thumbnail image for a second hemispherical input image, obtaining a first distortion correcting weight map, obtaining a second distortion correcting ...