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" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,470, 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 Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan), Pongsak Lasang (Singapore), Chi Wang (Singapore) and Chung Dean Han (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: obtaining geometry information which includes first three-dimensional positions on a measurement target, and is generate...