US Patent Issued to Dolby Video Compression on Oct. 28 for "Efficient multi-view coding using depth-map estimate for a dependent view" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,311, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Efficient multi-view coding using depth-map estimate for a dependent view" was invented by Heiko Schwarz (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The usual coding order according to which the reference view is coded prior to the dependent view, and within each view, a depth map is coded subsequent to the respective picture, may be maintained and does lead to a sacrifice of efficiency in performing inter-view redundancy removal by, for example, predicting motion data of the current picture of the dependent view from motio...