US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on Oct. 7 for "Cloud geometry data sensed by at least one sensor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,085, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Cloud geometry data sensed by at least one sensor" was invented by Sebastien Lasserre (Beijing) and Jonathan Taquet (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding, into a bitstream, point cloud geometry data sensed by at least one sensor associated with a sensor index, includes: obtaining a list of candidate radiuses (L={r2}) for a first occupied coarse point (P1) having a first sensor index (Lambda1), a first sample index (s1) and being associated with a first radius (r1); selecting, for the first occupied coarse point (P1), a sel...