US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on April 22 for "Method and apparatus to encode and decode images of points of a sphere" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,021, issued on April 22, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus to encode and decode images of points of a sphere" was invented by Julien Fleureau (Rennes, France), Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France) and Renaud Dore (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are provided to encode points of a sphere onto an image by projecting them as a function of an isotropic region guided mapping operator and/or to decode pixels of an image onto a sphere by de-projected them according to the same parametrized mapping operator. A region of interest is determined on the sphere an...