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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. 31, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2005
Applicants:

Michael Allan Sterling, Westlake Village, CA (US);

Eugene Murphy O'donnell, Fishers, IN (US);

Inventors:

Michael Allan Sterling, Westlake Village, CA (US);

Eugene Murphy O'Donnell, Fishers, IN (US);

Assignee:

Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/64 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01); H04N 9/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/64 (2013.01); H04N 1/6058 (2013.01); H04N 9/64 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for mastering and distributing enhanced color space content for different display devices (target color space) having display capabilities beyond that of CRT color space. The content creator(s) establishes base or reference color space and enhanced color space data for each target color space. The enhanced color space data is stored as metadata and transmitted over an enhanced color channel separately from the base/reference color space. Both the base/reference data and metadata are encoded before transmission and decoded on the consumer side either by a separate decoder or a display device having an integrated decoder. In other aspects of the invention, auxiliary data relating to the target color space, such as, for example, brightness, luminance, contrast and other display settings can be transmitted over the enhanced color channel and decoded to control the target color space settings (i.e., display settings). The color adjustment metadata could be included in the auxiliary data or maintained separate from the same depending on the desired implementation.


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