US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on March 17 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data captured by a spinning sensors head" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,698, issued on March 17, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided methods and apparatus of encoding/decoding a point cloud representing a physical object, each point of the point cloud being associated with a residual radius between a radius responsive to a distance of the point from a referential and a predicted radius. The method entropy encodes/decodes the sign of the residual ra...