ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,143, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Point cloud encoding method and system, point cloud decoding method and system, point cloud encoder, and point cloud decoder" was invented by Hui Yuan (Guangdong, China), Xiaohui Wang (Guangdong, China), Lu Wang (Guangdong, China), Qi Liu (Guangdong, China) and Ming Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a point cloud encoding method and system, a point cloud decoding method and system, a point cloud encoder, and a point cloud decoder. A prediction mode of attribute information ...