ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,270, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"High dynamic range scene cut detection" was invented by Shang-Chih Chuang (San Diego), Zhongshan Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Yi-Chun Lu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for processing video data. In some examples, a process is described that can include obtaining a plurality of frames, determining a scene cut in the plurality of frames, and determining a smoothed histogram based on the determined scene cut. For instance, the process can include determining a first characteristic of at least a first frame of t...