ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,848, issued on May 13, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Adaptive streaming with false contouring alleviation" was invented by Neeraj J. Gadgil (Pune, India), Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.) and Harshad Kadu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forward reshaping mapping is generated to map a source image to a corresponding forward reshaped image of a lower dynamic range. The source image is spatially downsampled to generate a resized image into which noise is injected to generate a noise injected image. The forward reshaping mapping is applied to map the noise injected image to gener...