ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,320, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for enhanced playback of stereoscopic media" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for enhancing playback of stereoscopic media. The dominant eye of a viewer is identified, and the lower-quality media channel segment of received stereoscopic media is also identified. In response to the lower-quality media channel being mapped to the dominant eye of the viewer, the left-eye media in the left-eye media channel is mirrored to generate a mirrored right-eye media, and the ...