US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on April 29 for "Electronic device, server and methods for viewport prediction based on head and eye gaze" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,437, issued on April 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Electronic device, server and methods for viewport prediction based on head and eye gaze" was invented by Alvin Jude Hari Haran (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Chris Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.) and Gunilla Berndtsson (Nacka, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by an electronic device for requesting tiles relating to a viewport of an ongoing omnidirectional video stream is provided. The ongoing omnidirectional video stream is provided by a server to be displayed to a user of the electronic device. The electronic device predicts for an ...