US Patent Issued to Axis on Dec. 9 for "Method and a device for reducing a dynamic range of an image" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,939, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and a device for reducing a dynamic range of an image" was invented by Thomas Winzell (Lund, Sweden) and Jesper Bengtsson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing a dynamic range of an image, whereby first and second images have pixel values of a first bit depth. One or more peak regions and a representative pixel value for each peak region is identified in a histogram of the pixel values in the first image. For pixel values in the first image that are within a peak region, a pixel value difference is calculated as a difference between the...