ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,511, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Apparatus and method for point cloud processing" was invented by Muhammad Asad Lodhi (Highland Park, N.J.), Jiahao Pang (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Dong Tian (Boxborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus or system for processing point cloud information can involve a learned deep entropy model over octrees for lossless compression/decompression of 3D point cloud data, wherein self-supervised compression/decompression involves an adaptive entropy coder operating on a tree-structured conditional entropy model and utilizing inf...