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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2019
Applicant:

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Qing Song, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Neeraj J. Gadgil, San Jose, CA (US);

Guan-Ming Su, Fremont, CA (US);

Peng Yin, Ithaca, NY (US);

Arun Raj, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/86 (2014.01); H04N 19/182 (2014.01); H04N 19/189 (2014.01); H04N 19/117 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/86 (2014.11); H04N 19/117 (2014.11); H04N 19/182 (2014.11); H04N 19/189 (2014.11);
Abstract

Methods and systems for reducing banding artifacts when displaying high-dynamic-range images reconstructed from coded reshaped images are described. Given an input image in a high dynamic range (HDR) which is mapped to a second image in a second dynamic range, banding artifacts in a reconstructed HDR image generated using the second image are reduced by a) in darks and mid-tone regions of the input image, adding noise to the input image before being mapped to the second image, and b) in highlights regions of the input image, modifying an input backward reshaping function, wherein the modified backward reshaping function will be used by a decoder to map a decoded version of the second image to the reconstructed HDR image. An example noise generation technique using simulated film-grain noise is provided.


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