US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on Sept. 16 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data sensed by at least one sensor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,555, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data sensed by at least one sensor" 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, into a bitstream, point cloud geometry data represented by ordered coarse points occupying some discrete positions of a set of discrete positions of a two-dimensional space, includes: encoding, into the bitstream, a data (Snext) indicating if an occupied coarse point (Pnext) associated with a point of the point cloud is...