US Patent Issued to TELECHIPS on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for employing dynamic range mapping information for HDR image decoder considering backward compatibility" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,176, issued on July 14, was assigned to TELECHIPS Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for employing dynamic range mapping information for HDR image decoder considering backward compatibility" was invented by Donggyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Seanae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Yongjo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Jonghyun Ma (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeongyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention enables efficient decoding by using DR mapping information between a base layer and an enhancement layer in various manners in an HDR decoder considering backward compatibility."

The patent...