US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 8 for "Point cloud data transmission device, point cloud data transmission method, point cloud data reception device, and point cloud data reception method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,557, issued on April 8, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Point cloud data transmission device, point cloud data transmission method, point cloud data reception device, and point cloud data reception method" was invented by Hyejung Hur (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting point cloud data. The method may include encoding geometry data of the point cloud data, encoding attribute data of the point cloud data based on the geometry data, and transmitting the encoded geometry data, the encoded attribute data and signaling data, the geometry encoding includ...