ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,106, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Reshaping functions for HDR imaging with continuity and reversibility constraints" was invented by Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating a set of forward and backward reshaping functions for the efficient coding of high-dynamic range (HDR) images are provided. Given an initial set of forward reshaping functions, output forward reshaping functions are constructed by a) using the forward reshaping functions to generate a first set of corresponding backward reshaping functions b) generating...