US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Feb. 10 for "Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,291, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, and imaging apparatus" was invented by Hideki Shimura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koji Kamiya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging signal processing apparatus that includes: a first video signal processing unit that generates, from a pixel signal obtained by an imaging unit capable of obtaining a pixel signal with a first dynamic range, a luminance reduction video signal with a second dynamic range narrower than the first dynamic range; and a second video signal proces...