Patent ID: 11861788
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions, that when executed on or across one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
identify areas of a three-dimensional scene based on objects included within the scene, wherein the areas are identified based on varying levels of geometric complexity of the objects included within the scene;
determine, for each of the respective areas, a mesh vertices budget for objects included in the respective area, wherein a greater mesh vertices budget is allocated to one or more areas of the three-dimensional scene comprising more geometrically complex objects and a lesser mesh vertices budget is allocated to one or more other areas of the scene comprising less geometrically complex objects;
generate metadata for the three-dimensional scene indicating:
the identified areas of the three-dimensional scene; and
respective mesh vertices budgets for each of the identified areas of the three-dimensional scene, wherein the mesh vertices budgets represent a number of vertices to be used to render objects within the respective areas or a down-scaling factor to be applied to reduce a number of vertices used to render objects within the respective areas;

generate immersive video content for the three-dimensional scene;
video-encode two-dimensional image frames comprising the generated immersive video content; and
provide, to a recipient, the metadata with the video-encoded two-dimensional image frames.