ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,695, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Video compression methods and apparatus" was invented by Geoffrey Stahl (San Jose, Calif.) and Avi Bar-Zeev (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixed reality system including a head-mounted display (HMD) and a base station. Information collected by HMD sensors may be transmitted to the base via a wired or wireless connection. On the base, a rendering engine renders frames including virtual content based in part on the sensor information, and an encoder compresses the frames according to an encoding protocol before sending the frames to the HMD ov...