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Microsoft patents HDR support for remote desktop connections

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Microsoft describes a method for sending high dynamic range (HDR) video from a remote server to a client device. The system uses a specific HDR encoder to process the visual data before it is transmitted over the network, ensuring the remote display supports a wider range of brightness and color.

Why it mattersThis could improve the visual quality of remote work setups, making remote desktop sessions look closer to local high-end monitors.

In the filing’s own words

Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media are provided for facilitating implementation of high dynamic range display technology in a remote desktop environment. In embodiments, graphical data is obtained, at a video driver of a remote desktop server, for presenting in association with a remote desktop client device. The graphical data is provided to a high dynamic range (HDR) video encoder, logically separated from the video driver, based on an indication to use the HDR video encoder to encode. Thereafter, the graphical data is encoded via the HDR video encoder, and such encoded graphical data is provided to a remote access protocol stack in a terminal service of the remote desktop server for transmitting the encoded graphical data to the remote desktop client device associated with the HDR monitor.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computing system comprising: a processor; and computer storage memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, configure the computing system to perform operations comprising: obtaining, at a video driver of a remote desktop server, graphical data for presenting in association with a remote desktop client device; providing the graphical data to a high dynamic range (HDR) video encoder, logically separated from the video driver via an encoding interface, based on an encoding indicator to use the HDR video encoder, of a plurality of video encoders, to perform encoding; encoding, via the HDR video encoder, the graphical data; and providing the encoded graphical data to a remote access protocol stack in a terminal service of the remote desktop server for transmitting the encoded graphical data to the remote desktop client device associated with an HDR monitor.

Facts

Company
Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
Official title
IMPLEMENTING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY IN A REMOTE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT
Publication number
US20260313171A1
Application number
19699889
Filed
Jun 5, 2026
Published
Oct 8, 2026
Inventors
1
Claims
20

Classified under

H04N 19/98 Electricity & electronicsG06F 9/452 Physics & computingH04N 19/186 Electricity & electronics
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