US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus for signaling depth of multi-plane images-based volumetric video" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,034, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for signaling depth of multi-plane images-based volumetric video" was invented by Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France), Franck Thudor (Rennes, France) and Renaud Dore (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and data stream are described to encode, transmit and decode an atlas-based representation of a 3D scene based on a multiplane image (MPI) representation in which a depth component is encoded in each layer. Layers of the MPI are clustered on a transparency basis to generate texture, transparency and dep...