US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on Nov. 18 for "Depth-color alignment with assistance metadata for transcoding of volumetric video" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,091, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Depth-color alignment with assistance metadata for transcoding of volumetric video" was invented by Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France), Franck Thudor (Rennes, France), Remy Gendrot (Montgermont, France) and Gerard Briand (Ploufragan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, device and data stream are provided to encode unaligned multi-view plus depth images associated with assistance metadata for generating depth maps aligned with the unaligned color views. At the encoding stage, for an unaligned color view, the contribution of each depth map i...