US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Aug. 26 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., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,371, issued on Aug. 26, 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), Chung Dean Han (Singapore), Keng Liang Loi (Singapore) and Pongsak Lasang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method of encoding three-dimensional points includes: calculating a predicted value of attribute information of a first three-dimen...