US Patent Issued to KDDI on April 15 for "Point-cloud decoding device, point-cloud decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,739, issued on April 15, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Point-cloud decoding device, point-cloud decoding method, and program" was invented by Kyohei Unno (Fujimino, Japan), Kei Kawamura (Fujimino, Japan) and Sei Naito (Fujimino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point-cloud decoding device 200 according to the present invention includes: a geometry information decoding unit 2010 configured to decode a flag that controls whether to apply "Implicit QtBt" or not; and an attribute-information decoding unit 2060 configured to decode a flag that controls whether to apply "scalable lifting" or not; wherein, a restriction is set n...