ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,013, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-view video codec" was invented by Matthew J. Yaeger (Tustin, Calif.), David M. Cole (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Benjamin D. Buckner (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding an image stream may include receiving an image stream with an original image resolution; generating a plurality of copies of the image stream with the original image resolution; encoding, for each copy of the plurality of copies of the image stream, the copy of the image stream to generate an encoded copy of the image stream, wherein the encoded copy of the image stream ...