US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on June 10 for "Method and apparatus for compressing point cloud data" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,381, issued on June 10, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for compressing point cloud data" was invented by Hyuk-Min Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin-Young Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyu-Heon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jun-Sik Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for compressing point cloud data. The method includes quantizing input point cloud data, generating a global motion matrix based on the quantized point cloud data, applying the global motion matrix based on whether local motion compression i...