US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 13 for "Hybrid-tree coding for inter and intra prediction for geometry coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,890, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid-tree coding for inter and intra prediction for geometry coding" was invented by Bappaditya Ray (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), 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: "A device for decoding a bitstream that includes point cloud data is configured to determine an octree that defines an octree-based splitting of a space containing the point cloud, wherein a leaf node of the octree contains one or more points of the point cloud; and directly deco...