ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,499, issued on July 14, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Optimized light field representation for compression" was invented by V. Michael Bove jr. (Wrentham, Mass.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatuses are described herein for encoding image data comprising two-dimensional (2D) perspective images that exhibit parallax for presentation on a three-dimensional (3D) display. The image data may be accessed and encoded by generating a group of pictures (GOP) that comprises the 2D perspective images and ordering the 2D perspective images within the GOP in a par...