US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Supporting multi-view video operations with disocclusion atlas" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,584, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Supporting multi-view video operations with disocclusion atlas" was invented by Gregory John Ward (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Occluded image fragments are sorted in size. The largest image fragment is used to size a quadtree node in a layout mask for a disocclusion atlas used to store the image fragments. The sorted image fragments are stored into the disocclusion atlas using the layout mask such as each image fragment is hosted with a best fit quadtree node in the disocclusion atlas. A video signal may be generated by en...