US Patent Issued to Warner Bros. Entertainment on March 17 for "Cinematic mastering for virtual reality and augmented reality" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,170, issued on March 17, was assigned to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Cinematic mastering for virtual reality and augmented reality" was invented by Christopher DeFaria (Los Angeles), Gregory I. Gewickey (Carpinteria, Calif.), Michael Smith (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) and Lewis S. Ostrover (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entertainment system provides data to a common screen (e.g., cinema screen) and personal immersive reality devices. For example, a cinematic data distribution server communicates with multiple immersive output devices each configured for providing immersive output (e.g., a virtual r...