US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, DIGITALINSIGHTS on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for point cloud coding using mapping function" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,537, issued on June 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and DIGITALINSIGHTS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for point cloud coding using mapping function" was invented by Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Seok Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a point cloud coding device and a method using a mapping function. The point cloud coding device and method compress attribute values of a point cloud by generating a piecewise linear function that is a nonlinear map...