US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Nov. 4 for "Tensor-product B-spline prediction for HDR video in mobile applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,170, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Tensor-product B-spline prediction for HDR video in mobile applications" was invented by Harshad Kadu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.), Sheng Qu (San Jose, Calif.), Per Jonas Andreas Klittmark (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hariharan Ganapathy Kathirvelu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tensor-Product B-splines (TPB) have been shown to improve video quality when used to represent reshaping functions to map reshaped standard dynamic range content into high dynamic range (HDR) content; however, TPB prediction ...