Patent ID: 9729850
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of operating a content playback device, the method comprising: receiving a first encoded image; receiving a second encoded image, said first encoded image and said second encoded image being images in a first stereoscopic image pair including a left eye view and a right eye view; receiving a first indicator indicating which of a plurality of texture maps corresponding to different resolution allocations is to be used with the first encoded image, said first indicator identifying a first texture map corresponding to a first resolution allocation; decoding the first encoded image to recover a first image; decoding the second encoded image to recover a second image; using, as part of a first rendering operation, the first texture map corresponding to the first resolution allocation to apply at least a portion of said first image to a surface of a first portion of a model of an environment to generate a first rendered image; using, as part of a second rendering operation, the first texture map corresponding to the first resolution allocation to apply at least a portion of said second image to the surface of the first portion of the model of an environment to generate a second rendered image; outputting the first rendered image to a display device; receiving a third encoded image; receiving a second indicator indicating which of the plurality of texture maps corresponding to different resolution allocations is to be used with the third encoded image, said second indicator identifying a second texture map corresponding to a second resolution allocation; decoding the third encoded image to recover a third image; and using, as part of a third rendering operation, the second texture map corresponding to the second resolution allocation to apply at least a portion of said third image to a surface of the first portion of the model of the environment to generate a third rendered image; and outputting the third rendered image to the display device.