ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,167, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Companion device assisted multi-view video coding" was invented by Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel), Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is configured obtain a first set of multiview pictures, wherein the first set of multiview pictures includes first pictures and second pictures, the first pictures being from a first viewpoint and the second pictures being from a second viewpoint; transmit first encoded video data to a receiving device,...