US Patent Issued to KDDI RESEARCH, University of Southern California on Nov. 18 for "Point cloud encoding device, point cloud decoding device, point cloud encoding method, point cloud decoding method, and program" (Japanese, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,641, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KDDI RESEARCH INC. (Saitama, Japan) and University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Point cloud encoding device, point cloud decoding device, point cloud encoding method, point cloud decoding method, and program" was invented by Shashank Nelamangala Sridhara (Karnataka, India), Eduardo Hernan Pavez Carvelli (Los Angeles), Antonio Ortega (Los Angeles), Ryousuke Watanabe (Fujimino, Japan), Keisuke Nonaka (Fujimino, Japan) and Kyouhei Unno (Fujimino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding efficiency for attribute information in point cloud information is improved.A point cloud encodin...