US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 29 for "Coding of laser angles for angular and azimuthal modes in geometry-based point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,714, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Coding of laser angles for angular and azimuthal modes in geometry-based point cloud compression" was invented by Geert Van der Auwera (Del Mar, Calif.), Louis Joseph Kerofsky (San Diego), Bappaditya Ray (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises obtaining a first laser angle; obtaining a second laser angle; obtaining a laser angle difference for a third laser angle; determining a predicted value based on the first laser angle and the second laser angle; and determini...