US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Coding point cloud data using direct mode for inter-prediction in G-PCC" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,092, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Coding point cloud data using direct mode for inter-prediction in G-PCC" was invented by Luong Pham Van (San Diego), Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for coding point cloud data includes a memory configured to store point cloud data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine at least one of 1) that a node of an octree of the point cloud data is not inter predictable or 2) that angular mode is enabled...