ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,203, issued on May 27, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Image data encoding method and apparatus, display method and apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Xiaowei Fan (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image data encoding method and apparatus (60) and an electronic device (80) are provided. The method includes: obtaining three-dimensional picture information of a first scene (101); and encoding the three-dimensional picture information of the first scene according to a preset file format, where the encoded three-dimensional picture information of the first scene incl...