US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Nov. 25 for "Immersive viewport dependent multiparty video communication" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,612, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Immersive viewport dependent multiparty video communication" was invented by Serhan Gul (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin) and Robert Skupin (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for providing immersive media content to a plurality of receivers is described. The apparatus obtains for a representation of the immersive media content a plurality of tiles, the plurality of tiles covering some or all of the representation, and, for some or all of...