ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,424, issued on May 20, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Grid-based patch generation for video-based point cloud coding" was invented by Wen Gao (West Windsor, N.J.), Xiang Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses of grid-based patch generation for point cloud coding are provided. The method includes obtaining an input that is a point cloud; grouping one or more voxels in the point cloud into one or more grids, the one or more grids having a cubic dimension; determining whether the cubic dimension associated with the one or more grids exce...