US 11,743,550 B2
Video content type metadata for high dynamic range
Robin Atkins, Vancouver (CA); and Per Jonas Andreas Klittmark, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/617,537
Filed by Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 26, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/039969
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/264409, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/868,070, filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 19183269 (EP), filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0264190 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 21/485 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/4854 (2013.01) [H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of generating a digital video bitstream from video content, wherein the digital video bitstream comprises content aware metadata, the content aware metadata including:
one or more category fields indicative of a category of the video content of the digital video bitstream, wherein the one or more category fields cause a target display to select display settings for displaying the video content in a display mode corresponding to the category of the video content, and
a reference mode flag indicative of whether the one or more category fields cause the target display to select display settings for displaying the video content in a reference mode, the reference mode representing a display mode having display settings that preserve a creative intent of the creator of the video content,
the method comprising:
setting the one or more category fields in the content aware metadata according to the category of the video content, and
setting the reference mode flag in the content aware metadata to indicate whether or not the one or more category fields are indicative of the reference mode.