US 12,395,616 B2
Immersive media content presentation and interactive 360° video communication
Serhan Gül, Berlin (DE); Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Berlin (DE); Cornelius Hellge, Berlin (DE); Thomas Schierl, Berlin (DE); Robert Skupin, Berlin (DE); and Thomas Wiegand, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich (DE)
Filed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich (DE)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/736,571.
Application 18/736,571 is a continuation of application No. 17/527,937, filed on Nov. 16, 2021, granted, now 12,041,219.
Application 17/527,937 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/064111, filed on May 20, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19175477 (EP), filed on May 20, 2019; and application No. 19194172 (EP), filed on Aug. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0323337 A1, Sep. 26, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 13/161 (2018.01); H04N 13/172 (2018.01); H04N 13/194 (2018.01); H04N 13/332 (2018.01); H04N 13/366 (2018.01); H04N 21/218 (2011.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01); H04N 21/6587 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 13/194 (2018.05) [H04N 13/161 (2018.05); H04N 13/172 (2018.05); H04N 13/332 (2018.05); H04N 13/366 (2018.05); H04N 21/21805 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/6587 (2013.01); H04N 21/816 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for a 360° video communication with a sender, wherein
the apparatus is to
acquire from the sender video data dependent on a certain viewing direction of a 360° video, and
display the video data representing the certain viewing direction of the 360° video,
wherein, for the certain viewing direction of the 360° video, the apparatus is to trigger a switching during the session between
(i) first video data rendered by the sender and representing a 2D video at the certain viewing direction of the 360° video; and
(ii) second video data not rendered by the sender and representing at least a part of the 360° video to be transmitted by the sender using a certain projection.