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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2018
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Rathish Krishnan, Foster City, CA (US);
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Some embodiments provide methods of playing back content, comprising: accessing video content comprising a series of frames that if fully decoded would extend beyond a viewer's field of view, and wherein each encoded frame comprises multiple encoded sections; determining a field of view of the viewer; identifying one or more sections of the first frame that are at least partially within the field of view; decoding the one or more sections of the first frame while not decoding one or more of the sections of the first frame that are not within the field of view; and displaying the one or more decoded sections of the first frame such that the portion of the first frame is displayed, and wherein less than all of the first frame is decoded and less than all of the first frame is displayed during playback.