ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,785, issued on May 12, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method and apparatus for delivering a volumetric video content" was invented by Bertrand Chupeau (Rennes, France), Gerard Briand (Ploufragan, France) and Renaud Dore (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and data stream are provided for signaling and decoding information representative of restrictions of navigation in a volumetric video. The data stream comprises metadata associated to video data representative of the volumetric video. The metadata comprise data representative of a viewing bounding box, data representati...