US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on May 12 for "Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding one or more views of a scene" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,803, issued on May 12, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding one or more views of a scene" was invented by Christiaan Varekamp (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for encoding and decoding image or video data comprising two or more views (10) of a scene. The encoding method comprises obtaining (11), for each of the two or more views, a respective block segmentation mask (12) of the view and block image data (13) of the view. The method further comprises generating (14) at least one packed frame (40) containing the two o...