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" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,382, 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 Masato Ohkawa (Toyama, Japan), Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan) and Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: obtaining second attribute information obtained by transforming first attribute information of a three-dimensional point in at least on...