US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Sept. 16 for "Method, apparatus and device for encapsulating media file, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,576, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, apparatus and device for encapsulating media file, and storage medium" was invented by Ying Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encapsulating a media file includes: acquiring coded bitstreams of panoramic pictures of N viewpoints, N being a positive integer greater than 1; and encapsulating the coded bitstreams in an entity group, and respectively adding, for at least one viewpoint in the N viewpoints, first information to a panoramic picture of the corresponding viewpoint, to obtain a media file of the panora...