ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,849, issued on June 30, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).
"Compression of multiplane images" was invented by Vijay Sundaram (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ajit Ninan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for compressing and decompressing MPI videos. According to an example embodiment, a method of compressing an MPI video includes splitting the MPI video into first and second frame sequences including texture and alpha frames of multiplane images, respectively. The method further includes applying sets of preprocessing operations to convert the first frame sequence into a thi...