US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on June 24 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., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,543, issued on June 24, 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 Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding items of attribute information corresponding to respective three-dimensional points using a parameter; and generating a bitstream including the items of attribute information encoded and th...