ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,110, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method and apparatuses for delivering a volumetric video content" was invented by Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France), Gerard Briand (Ploufragan, France) and Thierry Tapie (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses and streams are disclosed for transmitting tiled volumetric video and, at the receiver, for generating an atlas image compatible with a legacy decoder. At the server side, viewport information is obtained and a first list of central tiles and a second list of border tiles are selected. A central tile is a part of...