ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,285, issued on May 26, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Encoding and decoding immersive video" was invented by Bartolomeus Wilhelmus Damianus Van Geest (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Bart Kroon (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Christiaan Varekamp (Veldhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concepts for encoding and decoding multi-view data for immersive video are disclosed. In an encoding method, metadata is generated comprising a field indicating if a patch data unit of the multi-view data comprises in-painted data for representing missing data. The generated metadata provides a means of distingui...