US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Dec. 30 for "360-degree video coding using geometry projection" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,329, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"360-degree video coding using geometry projection" was invented by Yuwen He (San Diego), Yan Ye (San Diego), Philippe Hanhart (La Conversion, Switzerland) and Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing video data may include capturing the video data with multiple cameras and stitching the video data together to obtain a 360-degree video. A frame-packed picture may be provided based on the captured and stitched video data. A current sample location may be identified in the frame-packed picture. Whether a neighboring sample l...