ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,506, issued on April 29, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).
"Method for using viewing paths in navigation of 360deg videos" was invented by Tatu V J Harviainen (Helsinki) and Marko Palviainen (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for displaying 360-degree video using a viewing direction and/or a viewpoint position that is determined based on a user-selected level of automation. If full automation is selected by the user, the viewing direction and/or viewport position is determined by a defined viewing path. If partial automation is selected, the viewing directio...