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- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for generating an image data stream
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Application No.: US17279252Application Date: 2019-09-16
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Publication No.: US11317124B2Publication Date: 2022-04-26
- Inventor: Bartolomeus Wilhelmus Damianus Sonneveldt , Christiaan Varekamp
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP18196433 20180925
- International Application: PCT/EP2019/074606 WO 20190916
- International Announcement: WO2020/064376 WO 20200402
- Main IPC: H04N21/218
- IPC: H04N21/218 ; H04N21/434 ; H04N21/4728

Abstract:
An apparatus comprises a processor (301) providing a plurality of reference video streams for a plurality of reference viewpoints for a scene. A receiver (305) receives a viewpoint request from a remote client where the viewpoint request is indicative of a requested viewpoint. A generator (303) generates an output video stream comprising a first video stream with frames from a first reference video stream and a second video stream with frames from a second reference video stream. The frames of the second video stream are differentially encoded relative to the frames of the first video stream. A controller (307) selects the reference video stream for the first and second video streams in response to the viewpoint request and may be arranged to swap the reference video streams between being non-differentially encoded and being differentially encoded when the viewpoint request meets a criterion.
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