US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on July 28 for "Method, device and apparatus for avoiding chroma clipping in a tone mapper while maintaining saturation and preserving hue" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,496, issued on July 28, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method, device and apparatus for avoiding chroma clipping in a tone mapper while maintaining saturation and preserving hue" was invented by David Touze (Rennes, France), Marie-Jean Colaitis (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Robin Le Naour (Cesson-Sevigne, France) and Frederic Plissonneau (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising modifying a color correction function intended to correct initial chroma components of a current image to obtain normalized corrected chroma components for avoiding the clipping of the initial ch...