US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on July 8 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., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,316, issued on July 8, 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 Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), 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 of encoding geometry information of a first three-dimensional point cloud located in a first area includes: selecting a moving method from among moving methods; determining a secon...