US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Oct. 21 for "Dynamic spatial metadata for image and video processing" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,450, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Dynamic spatial metadata for image and video processing" was invented by Robin Atkins (Vancouver, Canada) and Per Jonas Andreas Klittmark (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating and using dynamic spatial metadata in image and video processing are described. In an encoder, in addition to global metadata, local, spatial metadata for two or more image regions or image objects are generated, smoothed, and embedded as spatial metadata values. In a decoder, the decoder can reconstruct the spatial met...