US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software, Xidian University on July 8 for "Method for encoding and decoding a point cloud" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,315, issued on July 8, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and Xidian University (Xi'An, China).

"Method for encoding and decoding a point cloud" 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 attributes of points of a point cloud, includes: determining a true transform coefficient by applying RAHT to attributes of a present node; determining a difference between attributes of a present parent node and each parent node of a first set of parent nodes sharing a face or an edge with the present node; selecting a seco...