ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,343, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Debanding systems and methods" was invented by Joel Sole Rojals (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes accessing a video frame that includes multiple pixels. The method also includes computing a local distribution for a specified region of the video frame that includes various pixels that are likely to include banding artifacts. This computing includes: defining a probability range for the local distribution that lies within a predefined interval, generating, using the defined probability range, a cumulative vector tha...