ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,193, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Luminance adaption to minimize discomfort and improve visibility" was invented by Alexandre Chapiro (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Robin Atkins (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott Daly (Kalama, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more media contents are received. A viewer's light adaptive states are predicted as a function of time as if the viewer is watching display mapped images derived from the one or more media contents. The viewer's light adaptive states are used to detect an excessive change in luminance in a specific media content portion of the...