US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software, Xidian University on Nov. 18 for "Method for encoding and decoding, encoder, and decoder" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,156, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and Xidian University (Xi'an, China).

"Method for encoding and decoding, encoder, and 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 a point cloud to generate a bitstream of compressed point cloud data is provided. The point cloud's geometry is represented by an octree-based structure with a plurality of nodes having parent-child relationships by recursively splitting a volumetric space containing the point cloud into sub-volumes each associated...