ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,080, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).
"Method for encoding and decoding a multi-view video" was invented by Felix Henry (Chatillon, France), Patrick Garus (Chatillon, France) and Gordon Clare (Chatillon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coding views simultaneously representing a 3D scene from different positions or different view angles, implemented by a coding device. The method includes, for a depth component of at least one view: partitioning the depth component into at least one block; obtaining depth information of the at least one block from texture data of a texture compo...