US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "Segmenting volumetric media content with rotational spaces" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,812, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Segmenting volumetric media content with rotational spaces" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cropping volumetric media is provided. Received volumetric video data is represented by a Bloch sphere. A user selected sub-volume is received to which the volumetric video data is to be cropped. CNNs having different strides are applied to sub-spheres defined within the Bloch sphere. The CNNs gen...