US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 3 for "Performance improvement of geometry point cloud compression (GPCC) planar mode using inter prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,143, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Performance improvement of geometry point cloud compression (GPCC) planar mode using inter prediction" was invented by Luong Pham Van (San Diego), 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: "An example device for processing a point cloud includes: a memory configured to store at least a portion of the point cloud; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: obtain planar information of a reference block of th...