US 11,689,705 B2
Apparatus, a method and a computer program for omnidirectional video
Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar, Tampere (FI); Igor Curcio, Tampere (FI); and Miska Hannuksela, Tampere (FI)
Assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 16/961,203
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Jan. 14, 2019, PCT No. PCT/FI2019/050027
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 9, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/141901, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 25, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 20185044 (FI), filed on Jan. 17, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0374505 A1, Nov. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. H04N 13/161 (2018.01); H04N 13/172 (2018.01); H04N 13/156 (2018.01); H04N 13/111 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 13/161 (2018.05) [H04N 13/111 (2018.05); H04N 13/156 (2018.05); H04N 13/172 (2018.05)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining information of a region for overlaying at least a part of an omnidirectional video, wherein the region for overlaying comprises, at least, a recommended viewport;
obtaining information of a current viewport in the omnidirectional video;
obtaining information of an overlaying method for determining whether to overlay a part of the current viewport by the region for overlaying, wherein the information of the overlaying method comprises at least one condition; and
encoding the information of the region for overlaying, the information of the current viewport and the information of the overlaying method, wherein the encoding is configured to enable overlaying of the part of the current viewport by the region for overlaying based on the overlaying method in response to a determination to perform overlaying.