ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,271, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for rendering video images in VR scenes" was invented by Kun Wang (Jiangsu, China), Jichun Li (Jiangsu, China), Mengze Wang (Jiangsu, China) and Youxin Chen (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for rendering video images in virtual reality (VR) scenes are provided. The method includes providing a video image at a current time point, dividing the video image at the current time point into a plurality of sub-regions, inputting image feature information of the sub-regions and acquired user viewpoint featu...