US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS on Sept. 15 for "Method and apparatus for encoding, transmitting and decoding volumetric video" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,355, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for encoding, transmitting and decoding volumetric video" was invented by Julien Fleureau (Rennes, France), Franck Thudor (Rennes, France) and Renaud Dore (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and stream for encoding, decoding and transmitting a multi-views frame are disclosed. A non-pruned MVD frame is obtained and an acyclic graph representing pruning precedence relations between views is determined. The MVD is pruned by using these precedence relations. The pruned MVD and data representative of the...