US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 22 for "Inter prediction coding for geometry point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,073, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Inter prediction coding for geometry point cloud compression" was invented by Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Bappaditya Ray (San Diego), Luong Pham Van (San Diego), Geert Van der Auwera (Del Mar, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of processing a point cloud includes responsive to determining to predict a current point in the point cloud using predictive geometry coding, selecting, from a set of prediction modes, a prediction mode for the current point, wherein the set of prediction modes includes at l...