US Patent Issued to CONTRAST on March 11 for "Combined HDR/LDR video streaming" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,357, issued on March 11, was assigned to CONTRAST INC. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Combined HDR/LDR video streaming" was invented by Willie C. Kiser (Albuquerque, N.M.), Nora Tocci (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Michael D. Tocci (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for broadcasting video in a dual HDR/LDR format such that the video can be displayed in real time by both LDR and HDR display devices. Methods and devices of the invention process streams of pixels from multiple sensors in a frame-independent manner to produce an HDR video signal in real time. That HDR video signal is then tone-mapped to pro...