ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,360, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Display-optimized HDR video contrast adaptation" was invented by Rutger Nijland (Venlo, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Obtaining improved watchable images for various viewing environment light levels by processing an input image to obtain an output image. The input image has input luminances which fall within a first luminance dynamic range and a maximum luminance. The reference luminance mapping metadata associated with the input image. An adapted luminance mapping function is based on the reference luminance mapping function. The a...