MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202347049366 A) filed by Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd., Beijing, on July 21, 2023, for 'method and apparatus of entropy encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data captured by a spinning sensors head.'

Inventor(s) include Lasserre, Sebastien; Taquet, Jonathan; and Champel, Mary-Luc Georges Henry.

The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "There is provided methods and apparatus of encoding/decoding a point cloud representing a physical object. Points of the point cloud are ordered based on azimuthal angles representing capture a...