ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,022, issued on April 21, was assigned to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).
"Video conversion technology" was invented by William Evans Butterworth (Los Angeles), Roger Raymond Dwinell (Canyon Country, Calif.) and Valerie McMahon (Castaic, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video conversion technology, in which a first stream of video content is accessed and multiple, different layers are extracted from the first stream of the video content. Each of the multiple, different layers are separately processed to convert the multiple, different layers into modified layers that each have a higher resolution. The modified...