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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2021
Koninklijke Kpn N.v., Rotterdam, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Aschwin Steven Reinier Brandt, The Hague, NL;
Emmanuel Thomas, Delft, NL;
Koninklijke KPN N.V., Rotterdam, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Abstract
A streaming server and a streaming client are described, with the streaming server being configured for streaming video data representing a panoramic video of a scene to the streaming client. The panoramic video may show the scene from a viewpoint within the scene, with the viewpoint being one of a plurality of viewpoints within the scene. When streaming first video data of a first panoramic video, and when starting to stream second video data of a second panoramic video, the streaming client may at least temporarily and simultaneously continue to stream at least part of the first video data by continuing to stream a part of the first video data which represents shared video content of the scene which is visible in the first panoramic video and in the second panoramic video, while additionally streaming second viewpoint-specific video data which represents viewpoint-specific video content of the scene.