Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Making HDR viewing a content owner agreed process
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Application No.: US14427019Application Date: 2013-09-08
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Publication No.: US09641894B2Publication Date: 2017-05-02
- Inventor: Mark Jozef Willem Mertens
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- International Application: PCT/IB2013/058384 WO 20130908
- International Announcement: WO2014/041471 WO 20140320
- Main IPC: H04N7/173
- IPC: H04N7/173 ; H04N21/4627 ; H04N21/4402 ; H04N21/2662 ; H04N21/254 ; G06F21/10 ; H04N5/913

Abstract:
To allowed for increased security for selling HDR movies (or at least HDR experiences) even when some of the movie data gets pirated, an image transformation apparatus (201) is arranged to derive a e.g. a high dynamic range image (HDR_PRED) from a low dynamic range image (LDR_CONT) or any dynamic range image (e.g. a display driving image) from any dynamic range input image, wherein the derivation comprises tone mapping of lumas of pixels in the low dynamic range image into lumas of pixels of the high dynamic range image by applying at least one predefined mapping algorithm (gam), the image transformation apparatus comprising: -an input (204) to a data delivery system (205) comprising the low dynamic range image; -a data-secured input (206) to the at least one predefined mapping algorithm (gam) data; and -a control unit (202) arranged to manage access to the predefined mapping algorithm data under control of an owner of artistic content in the low dynamic range image, which allows for better control of the authorized regularity of the content when it is to be rendered, which is possible because of our special HDR image encoding strategy.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150245096A1 MAKING HDR VIEWING A CONTENT OWNER AGREED PROCESS Public/Granted day:2015-08-27
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