US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on Nov. 25 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data using azimuthal coding mode" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,144, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data using azimuthal coding mode" was invented by Shuo Gao (Beijing) and Sebastien Lasserre (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a point cloud into a bitstream of encoded point cloud data representing a physical object is provided. The method includes an azimuthal coding mode providing a series of bits for encoding a coordinate of a point of the point cloud. The method includes: dividing a parent interval, to which the point coordinate belongs to, into a lef...