Patent ID: 9648346
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. Computer-readable storage hardware storing information to enable one or more devices that process and transmit multi-view video to perform a method, the method comprising: receiving video streams of a real world scene, the video streams concurrently captured by respective cameras comprising a first camera and a second camera, the video streams comprising a first video stream captured by the first camera and a second video stream captured by the second camera; receiving different viewpoints corresponding to positions of viewing a rendering of the multi-view video at respective times; compressing the first video stream according to the first compression rates, and compressing the second video stream according to the second compression rates, respectively, wherein the multi-view video comprises the compressed first video stream and the compressed second video stream; and transmitting the compressed first video stream and the compressed second video stream, which comprise the multi-view video, via a network to a remote terminal that receives the video streams, synthesizes the video streams into a synthetic video stream, and displays the synthetic video, wherein the displayed synthetic video stream comprises the rendering of the multi-view video.