US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on March 3 for "Method, apparatus, and system for providing zoomable stereo 360 virtual reality video" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,246, issued on March 3, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method, apparatus, and system for providing zoomable stereo 360 virtual reality video" was invented by Sung-Hoon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Seongwon Jung (Busan, South Korea) and Dongho You (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and system for providing a zoomable stereo 360 virtual reality (VR) video are provided. The method includes receiving media presentation description (MPD) information including information on video bit streams obtained by encoding each piece of video data b...