Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reducing banding artifacts in backward-compatible HDR imaging
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Application No.: US17282523Application Date: 2019-10-02
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Publication No.: US11277646B2Publication Date: 2022-03-15
- Inventor: Qing Song , Neeraj J. Gadgil , Guan-Ming Su , Peng Yin , Arun Raj
- Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Current Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Priority: EP18198414 20181003
- International Application: PCT/US2019/054299 WO 20191002
- International Announcement: WO2020/072651 WO 20200409
- Main IPC: H04N19/86
- IPC: H04N19/86 ; H04N19/182 ; H04N19/189 ; H04N19/117

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210368212A1 REDUCING BANDING ARTIFACTS IN BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE HDR IMAGING Public/Granted day:2021-11-25
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