ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,033, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, decoder, system, and method for determining tone mapping curve parameters" was invented by Hu Chen (Munich), Yichuan Wang (Beijing), Weiwei Xu (Hangzhou, China), Quanhe Yu (Beijing) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of video processing, and more particularly to high dynamic range (HDR) video and image processing. In particular, the present disclosure relates to determining one or more curve parameters of a tone mapping curve. For example, a device (e...