US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on May 20 for "Method and system for azimuthal angular prior and tree representation for cloud compression" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,728, issued on May 20, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Method and system for azimuthal angular prior and tree representation for cloud compression" 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 to representing a three-dimensional location of an object, the point cloud being located within a volumetric space, the method including determining at least one closest, relative to azimuthal distance, encoded node to a current node; determining an azimuthal prediction angle for each of the...