Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Guy Almog

Feng Li

Itsik Dvir

Guanhua Zhuang

Amiram Allouche

Yue Yin

Boris Sukholitko

Zhigang Huang

Nir Drori

Ido Shargil

Itzcak Pechtalt

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.

Scalable FOV+ for VR 360 video delivery to remote end users

An apparatus for delivering virtual reality data portions to a client device, including a processing unit configured to perform the following in each one of a plurality of iterations: (1) receive from a network a current orientation data indicating a current orientation of a client device, (2) apply a rotation to a segment of a sphere defined in a virtual reality (VR) video file according to the current orientation, (3) crop from the rotated segment of the sphere in an equirectangular projection format an extended field of view (EFOV) frame in the equirectangular projection format according to the current orientation, and (4) instruct the network to transmit the EFOV frame to the client device.

VR 360 video for remote end users

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Munich, Germany

Guy Almog