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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2018
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Michael Lodato, Clinton, NJ (US);
Rene Sepulveda, Fairfax Station, VA (US);
Pai Moodlagiri, Clinton, NJ (US);
Denny Breitenfeld, Florham Park, NJ (US);
Syed Meeran Kamal, Raritan, NJ (US);
Mohammad Raheel Khalid, Budd Lake, NJ (US);
Xavier Hansen, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An exemplary method includes a virtual reality media provider system acquiring, from a plurality of capture devices physically disposed at different vantage points in relation to a scene, a distinct set of two-dimensional (2D) color data and depth data (2D data) for each capture device included in the plurality of capture devices, each distinct set of 2D data representing a distinct unmeshed view of the scene from a respective vantage point of a respective capture device included in the plurality of capture devices, acquiring metadata for each distinct set of 2D data, packaging each distinct set of 2D data into a transport stream such that the transport stream includes data representing each distinct unmeshed view of the scene from each respective vantage point of each respective capture device, and providing the metadata and the transport stream for streaming to a media player device.