US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on April 22 for "Decoding method, decoding apparatus and program for decoding part of an entire point cloud in a three-dimensional space" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,076, issued on April 22, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Decoding method, decoding apparatus and program for decoding part of an entire point cloud in a three-dimensional space" was invented by Shiori Sugimoto (Musashino, Japan), Mayuko Watanabe (Musashino, Japan), Ryuichi Tanida (Musashino, Japan) and Hideaki Kimata (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method is a decoding method performed by a decoding device, the decoding method including steps of: acquiring, from among a plurality of slice numbers indicating a plurality of slices associated with encoded data of the entire point...