US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "Global motion estimation using road and ground object labels for geometry-based point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,096, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Global motion estimation using road and ground object labels for geometry-based point cloud compression" was invented by Luong Pham Van (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Bappaditya Ray (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: "A device to code a point cloud data that includes a memory configured to store data representing points of a point cloud, and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine height values of points in a point clou...