US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 9 for "Dynamic allocation of dynamic bins for variable dynamic range image content" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,940, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Dynamic allocation of dynamic bins for variable dynamic range image content" was invented by Mahesh B. Chappalli (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexey Kornienko (Watford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems include determining an upper boundary of brightness values of high-dynamic range image content. Using the determined upper boundary, end points of bins of histogram values are determined. Using the determined end points of the bins of histogram values, luma values are allocated to the bins. The high-dynamic range image content is processed ...