Patent attributes
In one example, a processing system including at least one processor may obtain viewport information of a mobile computing device associated with a panoramic video, map the viewport information to a plurality of blocks of a frame of the panoramic video in accordance with a cube map projection of the frame, encode the plurality of blocks into a projected frame, and transmit the projected frame to the mobile computing device. In another example, a processing system of a mobile computing device including at least one processor may obtain viewport information of the device associated with a panoramic video, transmit to a server the viewport information, obtain from the server a projected frame of the panoramic video comprising a plurality of blocks of a frame of the panoramic video that are associated with the viewport information in accordance with a cube map projection of the frame, and buffer the projected frame.
