ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,297, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Compression of depth maps" was invented by Christiaan Varekamp (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a receiver (201) receiving a first depth map for a first video frame of a plurality of videos frames. A divider (203) divides the first depth map into two dimensional geometric primitives/polygons larger than two pixels. A map generator (207) generates a vertex position map indicative of the vertex positions of the geometric primitives in the first depth map. A depth map generator (205) generates a second...