US Patent Issued to Koninklijke KPN, Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO on May 20 for "Streaming panoramic video of a scene from multiple viewpoints" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,434, issued on May 20, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Streaming panoramic video of a scene from multiple viewpoints" was invented by Aschwin Steven Reinier Brandt (The Hague, Netherlands) and Emmanuel Thomas (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streaming server and a streaming client are described, with the streaming server being configured for streaming video data representing a panoramic video of a scene to the streaming client. The panoramic video may show the scene from a vi...