US Patent Issued to KDDI on July 29 for "Point cloud decoding device, point cloud decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,993, issued on July 29, 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 200 includes: a geometry information decoding unit 2010 that decodes a first flag used to indicate whether or not to carry out inverse quantization of position information from a bit stream; and a tree synthesizing unit 2020 that sets a value of NodeQp to zero in a case where the first flag indicates that the inverse quantization o...