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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jae Hoon Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Ming Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Xiaosong Zhou, Campbell, CA (US);
Hsi-Jung Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Dazhong Zhang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Hang Yuan, San Jose, CA (US);
Jiefu Zhai, San Jose, CA (US);
Chris Y. Chung, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Frame packing techniques are disclosed for multi-directional images and video. According to an embodiment, a multi-directional source image is reformatted into a format in which image data from opposing fields of view are represented in respective regions of the packed image as flat image content. Image data from a multi-directional field of view of the source image between the opposing fields of view are represented in another region of the packed image as equirectangular image content. It is expected that use of the formatted frame will lead to coding efficiencies when the formatted image is processed by predictive video coding techniques and the like.