US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Aug. 19 for "Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,621, issued on Aug. 19, 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).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method encodes a plurality of three-dimensional points, and includes: selecting one of two or more prediction modes for calculating a predicted value of an attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point, in accordance with attribute ...