US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Angular mode and in-tree quantization in geometry point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,088, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Angular mode and in-tree quantization in geometry point cloud compression" was invented by 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 for decoding a bitstream that includes point cloud data can be configured to determine, based on syntax signaled in the bitstream, that in-tree quantization is enabled for a node; determine, for the node based on the syntax signaled in the bitstream, that an angular mode is activated for the ...