US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on Nov. 25 for "Method and apparatus for encoding, transmitting and decoding volumetric video" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,141, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for encoding, transmitting and decoding volumetric video" was invented by Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France), Renaud Dore (Rennes, France) and Franck Thudor (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and streams are disclosed for encoding a depth atlas representative of the geometry of a volumetric video. Views to be encoded are analyzed to detect regions of the views with simple depth or color, that is regions for which the depth or color has a local variance lower than a given threshold. Resolution of such ...