US 11,677,979 B2
Freeview video coding
Wen Gao, West Windsor, NJ (US); Jun Tian, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Shan Liu, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on May 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/325,496.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/069,371, filed on Aug. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0060750 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 19/597 (2014.01); H04N 19/119 (2014.01); H04N 19/46 (2014.01)
CPC H04N 19/597 (2014.11) [H04N 19/119 (2014.11); H04N 19/46 (2014.11)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
7. A computer system for video coding, the computer system comprising:
one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media configured to store computer program code; and
one or more computer processors configured to access said computer program code and operate as instructed by said computer program code, said computer program code including:
receiving code configured to cause the one or more computer processors to receive video data including one or more views;
generating code configured to cause the one or more computer processors to generate a composite depth image and a composite texture image corresponding to the one or more views based on the received video data; and
decoding code configured to cause the one or more computer processors to decode the video data based on the composite depth image and the composite texture image, wherein the decoding the video data is based on a value of a stitching layout associated with the composite depth image and the composite texture image, wherein the value of the stitching layout indicates a process of stitching depth images into the composite depth image and texture images into the composite texture image.