US Patent Issued to Agora Lab on Oct. 7 for "Real-time wide-angle video communication system" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,042, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Agora Lab Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time wide-angle video communication system" was invented by Sheng Zhong (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhonghou Zheng (Shanghai) and Zesen Zhuang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes maintaining a phase-out list that includes tiles of a current viewport of a wide-angle image that are predicted to no longer be in the viewport after a time duration d from a current time t. Tiles predicted to be viewed at a time that is later than the current time t are obtained. Those of the predicted tiles that are not in a receiver list are added to the re...