Patent ID: 11968349
Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for encoding a 3D scene in a data stream, the method comprising:
obtaining a reference viewing box and an intermediate viewing box defined within the 3D scene;
encoding, in the data stream, a reference central view captured from a point of view at a center of the reference viewing box and reference peripheral patches encoding images captured from different points of view in the reference viewing box, wherein the reference peripheral patches encode differences between a peripheral image and the reference central view;
encoding, in the data stream, at least one intermediate central patch encoding differences between a view captured from a center of the intermediate viewing box and the reference central view; and
encoding, in the data stream, metadata describing the reference viewing box and the intermediate viewing box and the different points of view.