ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,367, issued on April 29, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).
"Point cloud geometry compression" was invented by Sam Tak Wu Kwong (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Xinju Wu (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Shiqi Wang (Kowloon, Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for learning-based point cloud geometry compression includes: given a source point cloud, regressing an aligned mesh that is driven by a set of parameters from a deformable template mesh, quantizing the set of parameters into a parameter bitstream, generating an aligned point cloud from the quantized parameters by mesh manipulation and mesh-to-point-clo...