US Patent 11962867 Asset reusability for lightfield/holographic media

A method and apparatus for controlling lightfield and/or holographic media to be streamed to a client, determining a bandwidth based on a status of a client buffer, splitting the scene of the lightfield and/or holographic media, determining whether the assets are present in the client buffer, mapping the assets to respective ones of the split scenes and to the client buffer, controlling a transmission assets to the client buffer based on the bandwidth, the mapping, and whether one or more of the assets are determined to be present in the client buffer, and controlling the client to reuse at least one of the assets when rendering at least one of the split scenes.