US Patent Issued to Nvidia on Sept. 23 for "Remastering lower dynamic range content for higher dynamic range displays" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,787, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Remastering lower dynamic range content for higher dynamic range displays" was invented by Shaveen Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Anjul Patney (Kirkland, Wash.), Eric Xu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Anton Moor (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein involves using a machine learning model (e.g., CNN) to expand lower dynamic-range image content (e.g., SDR images) into higher dynamic-range image content (e.g., HDR images). The machine learning model can take as input the lower dynamic-range image and can output multiple expansion maps tha...