US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 23 for "Tiling for video based point cloud compression" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,647, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Tiling for video based point cloud compression" was invented by Rajan Laxman Joshi (San Diego) and Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for point cloud encoding includes generating, for a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud, video frames and atlas frames that includes pixels representing information about the 3D point cloud, wherein atlas tiles represent partitions in the atlas frames and video tiles represent partitions in the video frames. The method also includes setting a value for a syntax element ac...