US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on Jan. 20 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding a slice of point cloud data" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,992, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding a slice of point cloud data" was invented by Jonathan Taquet (Beijing) and Sebastien Lasserre (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a slice of point cloud data into a bitstream, includes: obtaining a previous coding state represented by at least one coding parameter value, apart from data representative of a content of an entry of an entropy context table, used to previously encoding point cloud data; initializing a current coding state from the previous coding state, the current...