Patents Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment
  • Predictive bitrate selection for 360 video streaming
    Patent number: 10389841
    Abstract: Predictive pre-fetching of streams for 360 degree video is described. User view orientation metadata is obtained for a 360 degree video stream that includes data for a plurality of viewports. Data corresponding to one or more high-resolution frames for a particular one of the viewports is pre-fetched based on the user view orientation metadata and those frames are displayed. The high resolution frames are characterized by a higher resolution than for remaining viewports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment
    Inventors: Erik Beran, Todd Tokubo