US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Sept. 30 for "Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three- dimensional data encoding device, and three- dimensional data decoding device" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,358, issued on Sept. 30, 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), Zheng Wu (Singapore), Chi Wang (Singapore), Chung Dean Han (Singapore) and Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method of encoding three-dimensional points obtained by a sensor includes: encoding local coordinate information indicating sets of local coord...