US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Jan. 20 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., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,810, issued on Jan. 20, 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) and Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: adding a first information item to a bitstream, the first information item indicating whether a duplicated point is available, the duplicated point representing, using a single node, position inform...