US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Jan. 27 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., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,978, issued on Jan. 27, 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 Hyunmook Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud data transmission method according to embodiments comprises the steps of: encoding geometry data of point cloud data; encoding attribute data of the point cloud data on the basis of the geometry data; and transmitting the encoded geometry data, the encoded attribute data, and signaling data, wherein the step of en...