ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,684, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LEIA SPV LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"System and method of detecting multiview file format" was invented by Chelhwon Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yiwen Hua (Foster City, Calif.) and David A. Fattal (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to multiview format detection. A multiview image that comprises a plurality of tiled view images is accessed. A cross-correlation map from the multiview image may be generated by autocorrelating the multiview image with a shifted copy of the multiview image. The cross-correlation map may be sampled at a plurality of pred...