ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,359, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Koniklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Display-optimized HDR video contrast adaptation" was invented by Rutger Nijland (Someren, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention creates improved images for various viewing environment light levels. The invention process an input image with an input luminance dynamic range with an input maximum luminance using a processing system. The input image has metadata which specifies a reference luminance mapping function. The output image has an adjusted maximum luminance determined by subtracting a user correction value from an output ...