US Patent Issued to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE, XIDIAN UNIVERSITY on Jan. 13 for "Method of encoding and decoding, encoder, decoder" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,923, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing) and XIDIAN UNIVERSITY (Shaanxi, China).

"Method of encoding and decoding, encoder, decoder" was invented by Wei Zhang (Shaanxi, China) and Mary-Luc Georges Henry Champel (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding and decoding, an encoder and decoder for a point cloud is disclosed. The method for encoding a point cloud to generate a bitstream of compressed point cloud data, the point cloud's geometry being represented by an octree-based structure with a plurality of nodes having parent-child relationships by recursively splitti...