US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on Oct. 28 for "Tile tracks for geometry-based point cloud data" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,252, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Tile tracks for geometry-based point cloud data" was invented by Srinivas Gudumasu (Montreal) and Ahmed Hamza (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus include receiving a timed-metadata track identifying point cloud tiles corresponding to one or more spatial regions within a point cloud scene. A decoding device determines one or more point cloud tiles to be used for rendering an image. One or more geometry tile tracks are retrieved, via a communications network, corresponding to the determined one or more point c...