US Patent Issued to HONOR DEVICE on Jan. 20 for "Predictive encoding/decoding method and apparatus for azimuth information of point cloud" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,808, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Predictive encoding/decoding method and apparatus for azimuth information of point cloud" was invented by Wei Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Fuzheng Yang (Shenzhen, China), Yuxin Du (Shenzhen, China) and Wenjie Zou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method includes: obtaining original point cloud data; obtaining depth information of a point cloud based on the original point cloud data; establishing a relationship between the depth information and azimuth information of the point cloud; and predictively encoding the azimuth information...