US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Quantized depths for projection point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,619, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Quantized depths for projection point cloud compression" was invented by Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Fabrice A. Robinet (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jungsun Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Khaled Mammou (Danville, Calif.), Valery G. Valentin (San Jose, Calif.) and Yeping Su (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. The encoder is ...