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

Claim 19:
20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the program instructions, when executed using the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
receive another instance of 3D visual content;
determine, for the other instance of 3D visual content, another plurality of patches each corresponding to portions of the other instance of 3D visual content;
for each patch of the other plurality of patches,
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 of the other plurality of patches into one or more other two-dimensional (2D) image frames; and
encode the other one or more 2D image frames.