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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,696, issued on March 17, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus of entropy encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data captured by a spinning sensors head" was invented by Sebastien Lasserre (Beijing), Jonathan Taquet (Beijing) and Mary-Luc Georges Henry Champel (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. Points of the point cloud are ordered based on azimuthal angles representing capture angles of sensors and sensor indices associated with sensors. The encoding method comprises enc...