ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,766, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Rotation-enabled high dynamic range video encoding" was invented by Neeraj J. Gadgil (Pune, India) and Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for encoding and decoding video data. One method includes receiving video data, the video data composed of a plurality of image frames, each image frame including a plurality of pixels. The method includes determining, for each image frame, a rotation matrix, determining, for each image frame, at least one of a scaling factor and an offset factor, and determining, for each ...