US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on April 1 for "Apparatuses and methods for improved encoding of images for better handling by displays" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,505, issued on April 1, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatuses and methods for improved encoding of images for better handling by displays" was invented by Chris Damkat (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Gerard De Haan (Helmond, Netherlands), Mark Jozef Willem Mertens (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Remco Muijs (Meteren, Netherlands), Martin Hammer (Arendonk, Belgium) and Philip Steven Newton (Waalre, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To allow better quality rendering of video on any display, a method is proposed of encoding, in addition to video data (VID), additional data (DD) comprising at least ...