ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,634, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time adaptive correction in viewport prediction for improved immersive video" was invented by Ying Luo (Shanghai), Hua Zhang (Shanghai), Xiaomin Chen (Shanghai) and Xin Kang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques related to viewport selection in immersive video contexts are discussed. Such techniques include generating multiple viewport predictions each for a future time interval and based on different prediction models, ranking the viewport predictions using error descriptors of the prediction models, selecting a viewport prediction for t...