US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on June 10 for "3D scene transmission with alpha layers" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,380, issued on June 10, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"3D scene transmission with alpha layers" was invented by Renaud Dore (Rennes, France), Bertrand Chupeau (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Benoit Vandame (Betton, France), Julien Fleureau (Rennes, France) and Didier Doyen (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To represent a 3D scene, the MPI format uses a set of fronto-parallel planes. Different from MPI, the current MIV standard accepts a 3D scene represented as sequence input pairs of texture and depth pictures as input. To enable transmission of an MPI cube via the MIV-V3C standard, in on...