ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,374, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"GPCC planar mode and buffer simplification" was invented by Geert Van der Auwera (Del Mar, Calif.), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Bappaditya Ray (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding point cloud data comprises storing, in a buffer, a maximum coordinate of a pair of coordinates of an applicable node, wherein the applicable node is a most-recently encoded node with a same position as a current node along an applicable axis and the pair of coordinates are for axes different from the applicable...