ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,417, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).
"Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding volumetric video" was invented by Jean Le Roux (Rennes, France), Charles Salmon-Legagneur (Rennes, France), Yvon Legallais (Rennes, France) and Franck Aumont (Vern sur Seiche, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and stream are disclosed to encode and decode a volumetric content. At the encoding, the space of the volumetric content is divided in distinct sectors according to at least two different sectorizations. One atlas is generated for each sectorization or a single atlas is genera...