Patent ID: 11922665
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions, that when executed using one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
determine, for three-dimensional (3D) visual content, a plurality of patches each corresponding to portions of the 3D visual content;
for each patch,
generate a patch image comprising a set of points corresponding to the patch projected onto a patch plane; and
generate a patch image comprising depth information for the set of points corresponding to the patch, wherein the depth information represents depths of the points in a direction perpendicular to the patch plane;

pack generated patch images for each of the determined patches into one or more two-dimensional (2D) image frames; and
encode the one or more 2D image frames.