US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on Sept. 30 for "Method and apparatus of quantizing spherical coordinates used for encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,808, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus of quantizing spherical coordinates used for encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data" was invented by Jonathan Taquet (Beijing) and Sebastien Lasserre (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 into/from a bitstream of encoded point cloud data representing a physical object, each point of the point cloud being associated with spherical coordinates representing an azimuthal angle responsive to a capture angle of a sensor that captured the point an...