ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,822, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Bit stream structure for compressed point cloud data" was invented by Jungsun Kim (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Khaled Mammou (Danville, Calif.), Fabrice A. Robinet (San Jose, Calif.), Yeping Su (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David W. Singer (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribut...