US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on June 3 for "Angular mode syntax for tree-based point cloud coding" (French, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,145, issued on June 3, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Angular mode syntax for tree-based point cloud coding" was invented by Gaelle Christine Martin-Cocher (Waterloo, Canada), Jonathan Taquet (Talensac, France) and Sebastien Lasserre (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and devices for coding point cloud data using an angular coding mode. The angular coding mode may be signaled using in an angular mode flag to signal that a volume is to be coded using the angular coding mode. The angular coding mode is applicable to planar volumes that have all of their occupied child nodes on one sid...