US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 3 for "Image-statistics-based de-banding in SDR to HDR conversion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,832, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image-statistics-based de-banding in SDR to HDR conversion" was invented by Tingting Zhao (Irvine, Calif.), Chang Su (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) and Chenguang Liu (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes employing a de-banding process based on image statistics in a dynamic range conversion system, including high dynamic range (HDR) to standard dynamic range (SDR) tone mapping (TM) process or SDR-to-HDR inverse tone mapping (ITM) process. A computing device performs the de-...