US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 14 for "Backward-compatible 3D messaging" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,025, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Backward-compatible 3D messaging" was invented by Imed Bouazizi (Celina, Texas), Liangping Ma (San Diego), Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany) and Nikolai Konrad Leung (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example server device for sending media data includes a memory configured to store media data; and a processing system implemented in circuitry and configured to: receive a set of three-dimensional (3D) media data being sent to a client device; transcode the set of 3D media data to a set of one or more images; and send the set of one or more images to t...