US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 23 for "Predictive geometry coding for point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,658, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Predictive geometry coding for point cloud compression" was invented by Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a point cloud includes determining that angular mode is enabled for encoding or decoding a current point of points in the point cloud, and parsing or signaling information for an azimuthal angle residual value for the current point independent of a radius value of the current point or a radius value of a previous point of the po...