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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Dag Birger Frommhold, Metzingen, DE;
Pavlos Mavridis, Reutlingen, DE;
Benjamin Markus Thaut, Stuttgart, DE;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for compressing depth information for a three-dimensional virtual scene includes, at a computing device, recognizing a three-dimensional virtual scene including one or more locally-maintained virtual objects. Positioning information for one or more remotely-maintained virtual objects to be included in the three-dimensional virtual scene are received from a remote device. For a virtual view of the three-dimensional virtual scene having a virtual perspective, different portions of the virtual view are classified as belonging to one of a plurality of different occlusion classes, each of the plurality of different occlusion classes specifying an occlusion relationship between locally-maintained virtual objects and remotely-maintained virtual objects in the virtual view. A depth-compressed representation indicating the occlusion class for each of the different portions of the virtual view is output to the remote device.