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Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 14, 2024
Applicant:

Netflix, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);

Inventor:

Joel Sole Rojals, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Netflix, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/86 (2014.01); H04N 19/167 (2014.01); H04N 19/182 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/86 (2014.11); H04N 19/167 (2014.11); H04N 19/182 (2014.11);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes accessing a video frame that includes multiple pixels. The method also includes computing a local distribution for a specified region of the video frame that includes various pixels that are likely to include banding artifacts. This computing includes: defining a probability range for the local distribution that lies within a predefined interval, generating, using the defined probability range, a cumulative vector that includes a distribution of pixels values along a cumulative range of pixels that lie within the specified region of the video frame, and selecting a pseudorandom value within the cumulative range. The method further includes applying dithering at least to the specified region of the video frame using the selected pseudorandom values within the cumulative range. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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