US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Aug. 19 for "Immersive media content presentation and interactive 360deg video communication" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,616, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Immersive media content presentation and interactive 360deg video communication" was invented by Serhan Gul (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Robert Skupin (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for presenting immersive media content is described. The apparatus obtains from a sender video data representing immersive content for a certain viewing direction and/or for a certain viewpoint, and displays the video dat...