ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,344, issued on Dec. 30.
"Adaptive coding and streaming of multi-directional video" was invented by Xiaohua Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Alexandros Tourapis (Milpitas, Calif.), Dazhong Zhang (Milpitas, Calif.), Hang Yuan (San Jose, Calif.), Hsi-Jung Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Jae Hoon Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Jiefu Zhai (San Jose, Calif.), Ming Chen (Cupertino, Calif.) and Xiaosong Zhou (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In communication applications, aggregate source image data at a transmitter exceeds the data that is needed to display a rendering of a viewport at a receiver. Improved streaming techniques that include estimatin...