ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,852, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Detecting equirectangular projection in 360-degree images" was invented by Sambu Arrojula (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mallikarjun Swamy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aamer Khani (Dublin, Calif.) and Siva Boggala (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing an image file representing a 360-degree image of a scene and determining, from the image file, a stretch factor that identifies to a relative change of adjacent pixels in at least one of (1) an upper row of pixels or (2) a lower row of pixels. The met...