ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,684, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus and method" was invented by Koji Yano (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Kato (Tokyo), Satoru Kuma (Tokyo) and Ohji Nakagami (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method that enable decoding of encoded data of an octree in various processing orders. The octree corresponding to point cloud data is encoded after the context is initialized for each layer of the octree. Further, a breadth-first order or a depth-first order is selected as the decoding order for the encoded data of the octree co...