ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,002, issued on April 14, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Method and encoder for encoding lidar data" was invented by Viktor Edpalm (Lund, Sweden) and Niklas Hansson (Lund, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding lidar data where subsequent frames of lidar data to be encoded are received. Each frame of lidar data comprises a number of lidar return signals for each of a plurality of rays emitted at a respective elevation and azimuth angle by a lidar, and each lidar return signal includes lidar measurement values. Each frame of lidar data is then represented as an image frame of a video sequence, wherein, f...