MUMBAI, India, Jan. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202417070904 A) filed by Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings, Sas, Paris, on Sept. 19, 2024, for 'depth-color alignment with assistance metadata for transcoding of volumetric video.'

Inventor(s) include Chupeau, Bertrand; Thudor, Franck; Gendrot, Remy; and Briand, Gerard.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 31, under issue no. 05/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Methods, device and data stream are provided to encode unaligned multi-view plus depth images associated with assistance metadata for generating depth maps aligned with the unaligned color views. At the encoding stage, for an unaligne...