US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Context-based reshaping algorithms for encoding video data" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,096, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Context-based reshaping algorithms for encoding video data" was invented by Neeraj J. Gadgil (Pune, India) and Guan-Ming Su (Freemont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for context-based encoding of video data using reshaping algorithms. One method includes receiving the video data, the video data composed of a plurality of image frames, each image frame including a plurality of pixel blocks. The method includes determining, for each pixel block, a luma bin index, determining, for each luma bin, a banding risk value, and...