ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,318, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Virtual reality streaming system and method" was invented by Sharwin Winesh Raghoebardajal (London) and Jose Rubio (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus provide for capturing with a camera a wide field of view image having a field of view that is wider than a field of view subsequently displayed to the recipient, capturing at least orientation information of the camera as extrinsic camera parameters, and streaming successive images along with corresponding extrinsic camera parameters. Alternative provisions include receiving a...