US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for decoding point cloud media, and method and apparatus for encoding point cloud media" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,657, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Method and apparatus for decoding point cloud media, and method and apparatus for encoding point cloud media" was invented by Ying Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for decoding point cloud media, point cloud media data including a plurality of point cloud samples encapsulated in one or more tracks is received. A compression unit of a point cloud sample in the plurality of point cloud samples is obtained. A media file data box of the point cloud sample includes type information that indicates a type of the compressi...