US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 21 for "Occupancy coding using inter prediction with octree occupancy coding based on dynamic optimal binary coder with update on the fly (OBUF) in geometry-based point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,783, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Occupancy coding using inter prediction with octree occupancy coding based on dynamic optimal binary coder with update on the fly (OBUF) in geometry-based point cloud compression" 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: "A G-PCC coder may determine an occupancy of a reference child node in a reference node, wherein the reference node is in a reference frame of point cloud data used for inter prediction of a current node ...