Empowering Content Creation and Distribution
Video innovation is more than compression; it is also about the tools that make content creation and distribution practical for studios, broadcasters, and platforms. High Dynamic Range (HDR) video expands the range of brightness, contrast, and color beyond what Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) can offer, delivering vivid highlights, richer shadows, and more lifelike detail to viewers' screens.
InterDigital's HDR and production research focuses on creator-facing enablers like dynamic conversion, perceptual quality enhancements, and metadata tools that ensure HDR content looks stunning and consistent across every screen.
The HDR and Video Production Technology We Research
HDR Creation and Conversion
Our research advances the creation, distribution, and rendering of HDR video for cinema, streaming, and live content. Our SL-HDR formats and tools, enabling dynamic conversion from SDR to HDR and back, make it possible to create vivid, lifelike images with enhanced contrast and detail while converting existing content libraries to HDR.
Perceptual Enhancements
InterDigital's filtering tools improve creative control—with tools that restore grain for cinematic aesthetics and enhance HDR content to reflect the creator's intent—and the perceptual quality of compressed video by removing artifacts such as blocking, ringing, flickering, and mosquito noise.
Metadata and Color Management
Consistent HDR delivery depends on accurate metadata and color representation across devices. InterDigital contributes technologies for color characterization, luma mapping with chroma scaling, and color gamut scalability. We also advance metadata generation and transmission methods that ensure HDR content maintains fidelity from the studio to the screen.
Reference Implementations
Reference implementations of HDR tools are working examples that help Systems-on-Chip (SoC) vendors, studios, and live production environments integrate advanced HDR into video production and devices, making adoption of HDR standards faster and easier at every step of the video value chain.
The HDR and Video Production Use Cases We Power
Superior Cinema and Home Entertainment
HDR brings movies and streaming shows to life with brighter highlights, richer shadows, and more vivid colors. InterDigital's HDR conversion tools help studios and platforms deliver consistent quality across broadcast, streaming services, and a variety of home displays.
Clear Action in Live Sports
Fast motion and complex lighting conditions make sports some of the most challenging content to capture and deliver. InterDigital's HDR innovations enhance contrast and brightness while filtering out compression artifacts, ensuring viewers see every play with lifelike clarity.
Cross-Platform Streaming
Dynamic SDR↔HDR conversions and metadata management make it possible for streaming platforms to deliver HDR experiences across a wide variety of devices, from premium HDR TVs to mobile phones.
High-Quality User-Generated Video
HDR and artifact-masking filters improve the look of short-form and user-created content. Our research enables better quality video capture and playback on platforms like social media apps, where bandwidth constraints and device variation are significant.
Creative Consistency in Media
From color characterization to reference implementations for SoC vendors, InterDigital tools help colorists, studios, and device makers preserve creative intent and deliver HDR consistently from the studio to the end-user device.
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Where We Are Leading HDR
Through contributions to organizations like MPEG, JVET, ITU-T, ETSI, and SMPTE, InterDigital helps define the global standards that make HDR scalable and interoperable. We were among key developers of the SL-HDR1 and SL-HDR2 formats, which enable HDR delivery via SDR streams. We have also contributed to the standardization of HDR support in codecs such as HEVC and VVC.
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HDR is transforming how video is created, delivered, and experienced. By advancing HDR standards and providing practical tools for producers, InterDigital helps ensure high-quality, lifelike video is accessible everywhere.
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