Patent ID: 11949848
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
capturing image data using one or more cameras, wherein the image data includes a primary image and associated depth values;
obtaining a plurality of pixel values by converting the depth values to an integer format and compressing the converted depth values based on an image format;
encoding the image data in the image format, wherein the encoded image data includes:
the primary image, encoded in the image format; and
image metadata that includes:
a device element that includes a profile element indicative of an image type; and
a first camera element, wherein the first camera element includes an image element and a depth map based on the depth values, wherein the depth map comprises the plurality of pixel values, each pixel value indicative of a respective distance from a particular camera of the one or more cameras;

after the encoding, storing the image data in a file container based on the image format; and
causing the primary image to be displayed.