ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,541, issued on May 19, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Streaming scene prioritizer for immersive media" was invented by Paul Spencer Dawkins (Garland, Texas), Arianne Hinds (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for immersive media processing. In some examples, a method of media processing includes receiving a scene based immersive media for playing at a light field based display. The scene based immersive media includes a plurality of scenes. The method includes assigning priority values respectivel...