Invention Application
- Patent Title: ADAPTIVE CODING AND STREAMING OF MULTI-DIRECTIONAL VIDEO
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Application No.: US16204792Application Date: 2018-11-29
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Publication No.: US20200177927A1Publication Date: 2020-06-04
- Inventor: Xiaohua YANG , Alexandros TOURAPIS , Dazhong ZHANG , Hang YUAN , Hsi-Jung WU , Jae Hoon KIM , Jiefu ZHAI , Ming CHEN , Xiaosong ZHOU
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Main IPC: H04N19/90
- IPC: H04N19/90 ; H04N21/2343 ; G06F3/01 ; H04N19/597 ; H04N19/52

Abstract:
In communication applications, aggregate source image data at a transmitter exceeds the data that is needed to display a rendering of a viewport at a receiver. Improved streaming techniques that include estimating a location of a viewport at a future time. According to such techniques, the viewport may represent a portion of an image from a multi-directional video to be displayed at the future time, and tile(s) of the image may be identified in which the viewport is estimated to be located. In these techniques, the image data of tile(s) in which the viewport is estimated to be located may be requested at a first service tier, and the other tile in which the viewport is not estimated to be located may be requested at a second service tier, lower than the first service tier.
Public/Granted literature
- US10939139B2 Adaptive coding and streaming of multi-directional video Public/Granted day:2021-03-02
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