US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on June 3 for "Predictive coding of point clouds using multiple frames of references" (Canadian, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,147, issued on June 3, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Predictive coding of point clouds using multiple frames of references" was invented by Sebastien Lasserre (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), David Flynn (Darmstadt, Germany) and Gaelle Christine Martin-Cocher (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for encoding a point cloud. More than one frame of reference is identified and a transform defines the relative motion of a second frame of reference to a first frame of reference. The space is segmented into regions and each region is associated with one of the frames of reference. Local motion vecto...