US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on March 18 for "Methods and apparatus to reduce latency for 360-degree viewport adaptive streaming" (Canadian, Turkish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,945, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus to reduce latency for 360-degree viewport adaptive streaming" was invented by Yong He (San Diego), Yan Ye (San Diego), Srinivas Gudumasu (Montreal), Eduardo Asbun (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ahmed Hamza (Coquitlam, Canada) and Ali C. Begen (Konya, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device adaptively streams a 360-degree video. A first segment is displayed based on a first viewing direction at a first time, where the first viewing direction is associated with a first viewport. The client requests a first base buffe...