US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 22 for "Data generation method, data reproduction method, data generation device and data reproduction device" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,395, issued on April 22, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Data generation method, data reproduction method, data generation device and data reproduction device" was invented by Virginie Drugeon (Darmstadt, Germany), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data generation method is for generating video data that covers a second luminance dynamic range wider than a first luminance dynamic range and has reproduction compatibility with a first device that does not support reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range...