ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,072, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Optimizing the displaying of HDR images" was invented by Rutger Nijland (Someren, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "1. To obtain in a pragmatic manner better watchable HDR images, we propose several variants of an image processing apparatus for processing an input image (Im_Comm) of an input video to obtain an output image of an output video, wherein the input image has pixels which have input luminances (Ln_in_pix) which fall within a first luminance dynamic range (DR_1), which first luminance dynamic range has a first maximum luminanc...