US Patent Issued to Ohmi Digital Fabrications on July 15 for "Moving image distribution method, moving image reproduction method, moving image distribution apparatus, and distribution data structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,353, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ohmi Digital Fabrications Co. Ltd. (Shiga, Japan).

"Moving image distribution method, moving image reproduction method, moving image distribution apparatus, and distribution data structure" was invented by Takuma Hirayama (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving image distribution method and a moving image distribution apparatus for reducing an increase in server load due to a change in a user's line of sight includes storing a video stream for each viewpoint of a plurality of viewpoints defined on a sphere with a camera as a point of observation, the video stream covering the sphe...