US Patent Issued to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE on June 30 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud captured by a spinning sensors head" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,837, issued on June 30, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud captured by a spinning sensors head" was invented by Jonathan Taquet (Beijing) and Sebastien Lasserre (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus of encoding/decoding a point cloud into a bitstream of encoded point cloud data captured by a spinning sensors head. Each point of the point cloud is associated with spherical coordinates and attributes. The methods comprises signaling, in the bitstream, a scaling offset information representing scaling offsets, and for each curr...