US Patent Issued to AVID TECHNOLOGY on May 13 for "Low-bitrate encoding of high dynamic range content" (Ukrainian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,936, issued on May 13, was assigned to AVID TECHNOLOGY INC. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Low-bitrate encoding of high dynamic range content" was invented by Markus Weber (Woerth, Germany) and Mykola Gerasymenko (Boryspil, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low bitrate encoding of HDR-coded content with codecs that achieve compression by lowering the precision of encoding can result in significant loss of color fidelity. The problem stems from the logarithmic nature of the HDR encoding and consequent excessive quantization of color components of HDR-coded material. The loss is ameliorated by applying a saturation emphasis function that b...