US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Image enhancement via global and local reshaping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,130, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Image enhancement via global and local reshaping" was invented by Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.), Harshad Kadu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Per Jonas Andreas Klittmark (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first reshaping mapping is performed on a first image represented in a first domain to generate a second image represented in a second domain. The first domain is of a first dynamic range different from a second dynamic range of which the second domain is. A second reshaping mapping is performed ...