US Patent Issued to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE on Nov. 25 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data captured by a spinning sensors head" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,142, issued on Nov. 25, 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 Jonathan Taquet (Beijing) and Sebastien Lasserre (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding/decoding a point cloud into/from a bitstream of encoded point cloud data representing a physical object includes determining a dynamic list of at least one prediction data used to derive at least one candidate predictor used to encode geometry data of points of the point cloud. The list of at least one prediction dat...