US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 9 for "High level syntax refinements for geometry point cloud compression (G-PCC)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,311, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"High level syntax refinements for geometry point cloud compression (G-PCC)" was invented by Bappaditya Ray (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), 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 method of encoding point cloud data includes determining an amount by which a laser turns for determining points in a point cloud represented by the point cloud data, generating a syntax element indicative of the amount by which the laser turns, wherein a value of the syntax element is a defined v...