US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on July 22 for "Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding volumetric content in and from a data stream" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,831, issued on July 22, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding volumetric content in and from a data stream" was invented by Julien Fleureau (Rennes, France), Renaud Dore (Rennes, France), Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France) and Franck Thudor (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding a volumetric scene are disclosed. A set of attribute and geometry patches is obtained by projecting samples of the volumetric scene onto the patches according to projection parameters. If the geometry patch is comparable to a planar la...