ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,418, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for decoding 3D content, encoder, and decoder" was invented by Vladyslav Zakharchenko (Palo Alto, Calif.), Haoping Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yue Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding three-dimensional (3D) content comprising extracting a video frame from a video, wherein the video frame includes connectivity information associated with the 3D content; and reconstructing the 3D content based on the connectivity information. The reconstructing comprises: determining an end of the c...