ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,345, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Concept for determining a measure for a distortion change in a synthesized view due to depth map modifications" was invented by Gerhard Tech (Berlin), Karsten Mueller (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining a measure for a distortion change of a first view synthesized from a second view, caused by a modification of a depth map of the second view from a first state to a second state, is configured-starting from a current synthesis state of the first view corresponding to a synthesis from the s...