ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,716, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and method for dynamic range transforming of images" was invented by Renatus Josephus Van Der Vleuten (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Charles Lenonardus Cornelius Maria Knibbeler (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises a receiver (201) for receiving an image signal comprising an encoded image. Another receiver (1701) receives a data signal from a display (107) where the data signal comprises a data field that comprises a display dynamic range indication of the display (107). The dis...