US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on March 17 for "Volumetric video supporting light effects" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,729, issued on March 17, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Volumetric video supporting light effects" was invented by Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France), Renaud Dore (Rennes, France), Julien Fleureau (Rennes, France) and Franck Thudor (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and data streams are proposed to encode, transport and decode 3D volumetric videos. The embodiments encompass the signaling of non-Lambertian patches together with their light reflection properties, so as to enable a ray-tracing based rendering engine to synthesize visually realistic virtual views with respect to...