US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 30 for "Clipping laser indices in predictive geometry coding for point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,807, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Clipping laser indices in predictive geometry coding for point cloud compression" was invented by Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Bappaditya Ray (San Diego), 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 encoding a point cloud includes determining, by one or more processors, a quantity of lasers used to capture light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data that represents the point cloud; and encoding, by the one or more processors, a laser index for a current node of the point cloud, wherei...