US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Jan. 27 for "Virtual field of view adjustment in live volumetric video" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,909, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Virtual field of view adjustment in live volumetric video" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Micah Forster (Round Rock, Texas), Ashafaaq Minhas (Jersey City, N.J.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video of a plurality of fields of view of a scene is captured, each field of view comprising data of the scene from a different vantage point. An excitement level is determined by analyzing a portion of the captured video. Using the excitement level, a time series of future excitement levels is f...