US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on Feb. 25 for "Angular prior and direct coding mode for tree representation coding of a point cloud" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,651, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Angular prior and direct coding mode for tree representation coding of a point cloud" was invented by Jonathan Taquet (Talensac, France) and Sebastien Lasserre (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding or decoding a point cloud for representing a three-dimensional location of an object, the point cloud being generated by a device comprising a plurality of beam emitters. The method comprises using information from the beam emitter such as the location and angle of each beam emitter to more efficiently represent the point ...