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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2020
Koninklijke Kpn N.v., Rotterdam, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Sylvie Dijkstra-Soudarissanane, Delft, NL;
Hendrikus Nathaniël Hindriks, Gouda, NL;
Emmanuel Thomas, Delft, NL;
Koninklijke KPN N.V., Rotterdam, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Abstract
An encoding method comprises obtaining () an input set of volumetric image data, selecting () data from the image data for multiple views based on a visibility of the data from a respective viewpoint at a respective viewing direction and/or within a respective field of view such that a plurality of the views comprises only a part of the image data, encoding () each of the views as a separate output set (), and generating () metadata which indicates the viewpoints. A decoding method comprises determining () a desired user viewpoint, obtaining () the metadata, selecting () one or more of the available viewpoints based on the desired user viewpoint, obtaining () one or more sets of image data in which one or more available views corresponding to the selected one or more available viewpoints have been encoded, and decoding () at least one of the one or more available views.