US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for encoding spherical media content" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,842, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for encoding spherical media content" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for identifying a plurality of versions of a plurality of frames of a spherical media content item, wherein each version of the plurality of versions is associated with one of a plurality of resolutions and one of a plurality of video qualities. The plurality of versions is encoded to obtain encoding data comprising a group of pictures (GOP) comprising i...