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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 10, 2021
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Bo Han, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Jackson Jarrell Pair, Hermosa Beach, CA (US);

Cheuk Yiu Ip, Metuchen, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/117 (2018.01); H04N 13/194 (2018.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06N 3/08 (2006.01); G06T 7/174 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/194 (2018.05); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/174 (2017.01); H04N 13/117 (2018.05);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising predicting a viewpoint within a volumetric video based on a movement input provided by a viewer, resulting in a predicted viewpoint at a future time, retrieving a cell occupancy bitmap for a point cloud of the volumetric video for the future time, determining visible cells based on the cell occupancy bitmap and the predicted viewpoint, where the visible cells are not obscured by points in other cells, and retrieving points of the point cloud that are within the visible cells prior to the future time.


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