ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,928, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and method for dynamic range transforming of images" was invented by Charles Leonardus Cornelius Maria Knibbeler (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Renatus Josephus Van Der Vleuten (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Wiebe De Haan (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises a receiver (201) for receiving an image signal which comprises at least an encoded image and a target display reference. The target display reference is indicative of a dynamic range of a target display for which the encoded imag...