ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,037, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Pre-processing immersive video" was invented by Bart Kroon (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Christiaan Varekamp (Veldhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing immersive video data prior to processing into an immersive video. The method comprises receiving immersive video data containing one or more images of a scene, the scene comprising one or more image regions, and obtaining a relevance factor for at least one of the image regions, the relevance factor being indicative of the relative importance of the image regio...