US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 16 for "HDR tone mapping methods with scene adaptive parameterized tone map function" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,519, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"HDR tone mapping methods with scene adaptive parameterized tone map function" was invented by Li Tao (Mountain View, Calif.), Yeong-Taeg Kim (Mountain View, Calif.), Chenguang Liu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Pradeep Nagesh (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a quantized video having a first maximum luminance level or brightness associated with a mastering display with which the quantized video was mastered. The method also includes de-quantizing the quantized video in order to generate a de-qu...