US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Methods, user equipment and apparatus for controlling VR image in a communication network" (American, Japanese, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,628, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods, user equipment and apparatus for controlling VR image in a communication network" was invented by Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, Texas), Kalle Petteri Kela (Kaarina, Finland) and Benoist Pierre Sebire (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, user equipment and apparatus for controlling VR image in a communication network. The VR image is represented by image data being associated to respective parts of the image. The VR image data is handled on the basis of identifications indicating different viewports for a user."

The patent was filed on D...