US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Sept. 9 for "Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" (Japanese, Singaporean, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,781, issued on Sept. 9, 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), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Pongsak Lasang (Singapore), Zheng Wu (Singapore), Keng Liang Loi (Singapore) and Chung Dean Han (Johor Bahru, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: calculating a predicted value of a position of a ...