US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 3 for "Custom data indicating nominal range of samples of media content" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,646, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Custom data indicating nominal range of samples of media content" was invented by Yongjun Wu (Bellevue, Wash.), Naveen Thumpudi (Redmond, Wash.) and Shyam Sadhwani (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media processing tool adds custom data to an elementary media bitstream or media container. The custom data indicates nominal range of samples of media content, but the meaning of the custom data is not defined in the codec format or media container format. For example, the custom data indicates the nominal range is full range or lim...