US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on May 27 for "Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" (Singaporean, Japanese, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,204, issued on May 27, 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 (Johor Bahru, Malaysia), Pongsak Lasang (Singapore), Pradit Mittrapiyanuruk (Singapore) and Keng Liang Loi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: calculating coefficient values from items of attribute information ...