US Patent Issued to KDDI on Sept. 23 for "Point-cloud decoding device, point-cloud decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,875, issued on Sept. 23, 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 includes: a tree synthesizing unit configured to generate Mask_planar corresponding to eight child nodes of a node, wherein in a case where the node is subjected to quadtree division or binary tree division, the tree synthesizing unit (2020) is configured to set, as "0", a value of the Mask_planar corresponding to a child node be...