US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Sept. 23 for "Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,663, issued on Sept. 23, 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 Pongsak Lasang (Singapore), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan) and Tatsuya Koyama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: determining whether to encode, using an octree structure, a current space unit among a plurality of space units included in three-dimensional data; encoding the current ...