US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on Oct. 20 for "Decoder side depth and color alignment with the assistance of metadata for the transcoding of volumetric video" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,873, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Decoder side depth and color alignment with the assistance of metadata for the transcoding of volumetric video" was invented by Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France), Franck Thudor (Rennes, France) and Remy Gendrot (Montgermont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, device and data stream are provided to encode unaligned multi-view plus depth images associated with assistance metadata for generating depth maps aligned with the unaligned color views. At the encoding stage, for an unaligned color view, the contribution of each depth map is evalua...