ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,229, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"3D prediction method for video coding" was invented by Seppo Valli (Espoo, Finland) and Pekka Siltanen (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for using a Multi Focal Plane (MFP) prediction in predictive coding. The system detects a camera viewpoint change between a current frame from a current camera viewpoint to a previous frame from a previous camera viewpoint, decomposes a reconstructed previous frame to a plurality of focal planes, adjusts the plurality of focal planes from the previous camera viewpoint to correspond ...