US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on April 29 for "Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,469, issued on April 29, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" was invented by Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding pieces of attribute information of respective three-dimensional points, using parameters; and generating a bitstream including the pieces of attribute information encoded, control informati...