US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 7 for "Guided collaborative viewing of navigable image content" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,728, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Guided collaborative viewing of navigable image content" was invented by Michael Chen (Wallingford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for providing guided collaborative viewing are described herein. In example implementations, a user navigates navigable image content such as immersive content, 360deg video, and the like. During the navigation, navigation data is generated that indicates the orientations of the user's view of the navigable image content. Various techniques are employed to obtain variant navigation dat...