Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Boris Sukholitko

Feng Li

Itsik Dvir

Guanhua Zhuang

Amiram Allouche

Guy Almog

Amiram Allouch

A distribution device for delivering a selected viewport stream of virtual reality (VR) data to each of a plurality of client devices, comprising a processor configured for receiving a plurality of extended viewport streams of a VR video file each comprising a sequence of extended field of view (EFOV) frames created for a respective one of a plurality of overlapping segments constituting a sphere defined in the VR video file and delivering a selected one of the plurality of extended viewport streams to each of a plurality of client devices by performing the following for each of the client devices in each of a plurality of iterations: (1) receiving a current orientation data of the respective client device; (2) selecting one of the plurality of extended viewport streams according to the current orientation data; and (3) transmitting the selected extended viewport stream to the respective client device.

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Munich, Germany

Boris Sukholitko