US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 23 for "Session description protocol (SDP) signaling of occlude-free regions in 360 video conferencing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,544, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Session description protocol (SDP) signaling of occlude-free regions in 360 video conferencing" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A including receiving a first video input corresponding to a 360-degree video; receiving one or more second video inputs; defining one or more occlude-free regions in the first video input, each occlude-free region indicating an area of the video that is not overlayed by another image or video; signaling location information of the one or more occlude-free regions in a session descript...