US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on March 24 for "Method for encoding and decoding a 3D point cloud, encoder, decoder" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,257, issued on March 24, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method for encoding and decoding a 3D point cloud, encoder, decoder" was invented by Shuo Gao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for decoding, from a bitstream, the geometry of a 3D point cloud by decoding information constituting a geometrical representation of the geometry, preferably implemented in a decoder, including: receiving and decoding a bitstream, wherein the bitstream contains octree information including information about octree structure of the volume of the point cloud and vertex information including information a...