US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Method, apparatus and computer program product providing for extended margins around a viewport for immersive content" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,172, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, apparatus and computer program product providing for extended margins around a viewport for immersive content" was invented by Saba Ahsan (Espoo, Finland), Igor Danilo Diego Curcio (Tampere, Finland) and Ari Hourunranta (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide for extended margins around a viewport for immersive content. In the context of a method, the method receives panoramic video content and determines at least one motion signal. The method determines a viewport area, margin area...