US Patent Issued to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud captured by a spinning sensors head" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,084, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud captured by a spinning sensors head" was invented by Sebastien Lasserre (Beijing) and Jonathan Taquet (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 captured by a set of sensors. The encoding method obtains a list of ordered points of the point cloud by ordering the points according to a lexicographic order based on azimuthal angles and sensor indices associated with points of the point cloud; obtains a next point following a...