US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Point cloud compression with supplemental information messages" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,083, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Point cloud compression with supplemental information messages" was invented by Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jungsun Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Khaled Mammou (Danville, Calif.), David W. Singer (San Francisco) and Fabrice A. Robinet (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

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 for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the e...