ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,805, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Immersive media content encoding and rendering" was invented by Maneli Noorkami (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ranjit Desai (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Afshin Taghavi Nasrabadi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding computing device determines a focus area of a view of volumetric visual content, such as a three-dimensional (3D) object or scene, and indicates the focus area in a request for compressed volumetric visual content. A server provides a depth map and an attribute atlas that includes attribute and/or texture information for the focus area that is...