Patent ID: 9509935
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G06F,G09G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A display management unit configured to provide a modified video signal substantially in real-time for display on a target display, the display management unit in communications with the target display and a second target display over an electronic distribution network, the electronic distribution network connected to both the target display and the second target display, and the target display and the second target display having a first set of display characteristics and a second set of display characteristics respectively, the display management unit configured to access information regarding the target display and the second target display and at least one input video signal, the display management unit comprising: a database interface configured to retrieve display characteristics corresponding to the information regarding the target display from a display characteristics database, the target display in two-way electronic communications during the course of video signal transmission with the display management unit over the electronic distribution network; a mapping unit configured to map at least one of tone and color values from the at least one input video signal to corresponding mapped values based at least in part on the retrieved display characteristics to produce the modified video signal; wherein the mapping unit is configured to selectively map the at least one of tone and color values from the at least one input video signal to corresponding mapped values based at least in part on locations of pixels corresponding to the at least one of tone and color values in image frames of the input video signal; wherein the display management unit is configured to access metadata characterizing at least one aspect of a creative intent affecting how the video content embodied in the at least one input video signal ought to be displayed, wherein the mapping unit is configured to map the at least one of tone and color values from the input video signal to corresponding mapped values based at least in part on the metadata; and wherein further the display management unit configured to distribute the modified video signals substantially in real-time to the target display over the electronic distribution network and further wherein the modified video signals are modified in accordance with display information sent from the target display to the display management unit during the course of video signal transmission.