US Patent Issued to Koninklijke KPN, Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO on May 12 for "Encoding and decoding views on volumetric image data" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,409, issued on May 12, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Encoding and decoding views on volumetric image data" was invented by Sylvie Dijkstra-Soudarissanane (Delft, Netherlands), Hendrikus Nathaniel Hindriks (Gouda, Netherlands) and Emmanuel Thomas (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method comprises obtaining (101) an input set of volumetric image data, selecting (103) data from the image data for multiple views based on a visibility of the data from a respective viewpo...