US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on May 12 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data captured by a spinning sensors head" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,414, issued on May 12, 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 Jonathan Taquet (Beijing) and Sebastien Lasserre (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a point cloud into a bitstream, each point of the point cloud being associated with spherical coordinates representing an azimuthal angle and a radius, includes: obtaining a scaled elementary azimuthal step associated with a point of the point cloud, the scaled elementary azimuthal step being equal to first data greate...