US Patent Issued to KDDI on Dec. 30 for "Point cloud decoding device, point cloud decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,792, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud decoding device according to the present invention including: a geometry information decoding unit that decodes syntax used to indicate the number of layers of a tree in decoding an Octree, wherein the syntax decoded by the geometry information decoding unit has a value equal to or less than a value obtained by adding a predetermined natural number to a maximum node size per slice ...