ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,679, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Stereoscopic floating window metadata" was invented by Christopher L. Flick (San Jose, Calif.) and Timothy K. Dashwood (Culver City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for addressing "stereoscopic window violations" in stereoscopic multimedia content. Stereoscopic window violations result in the stereoscopic effect becoming "broken" for the viewer and may occur, e.g., when the left and right stereo eye views in the stereoscopic content are mismatched. Stereoscopic mismatch often occurs at the edges of the left and right eye video imag...