ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,753, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and electronic device for estimating perceptual quality of high dynamic range (HDR) images" was invented by Srenivas Varadarajan (Karnataka, India), Anamika Sharma (Karnataka, India) and Kaustav Chanda (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for estimating a perceptual quality of a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image includes dividing an image into at least one static region and at least one dynamic region, weighting at least one artifact in the at least one static region and the at least one dynamic region...