US Patent Issued to Sharp on April 15 for "Systems and methods for signaling content component information in omnidirectional media" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,004, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for signaling content component information in omnidirectional media" was invented by Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes one or more processors configured to: receive a representation element; and parse an attribute in the representation element, wherein the attribute, when present, specifies a set of media content components that are contained in the representation element as a list of track identifier values, and the attribute is represented as a list of unsigned integers."

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