ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,367, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Feature-based multi-view representation and coding" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to decode at least one first key picture of pictures from a multi-view bitstream. The pictures correspond to different views. The at least one first key picture corresponds to at least one first view of the d...