US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on Nov. 18 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data captured by a spinning sensors head" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,603, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data captured by a spinning sensors head" was invented by Mary-Luc Georges Henry Champel (Beijing) and Sebastien Lasserre (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided methods and apparatus of encoding/decoding a point cloud representing a physical object. Points are captured by a spinning sensors head and are represented by sensor indices associated with sensors that captured the points, azimuthal angles representing capture angles of said sensors, and radius values of...