US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on Sept. 8 for "Encoder and decoder and methods for encoding and decoding point attributes associated to point of point cloud" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,296, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Encoder and decoder and methods for encoding and decoding point attributes associated to point of point cloud" was invented by Wei Zhang (Xi'an, China), Mary-Luc Georges Henry Champel (Beijing) and Shuo Gao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding, in a bitstream, point attributes associated to a point of a point cloud, includes: determining, for a point P to be encoded to the bitstream, a predictor list of k predictor points of the point cloud including k points of the point cloud nearest to the point P to be encoded, whe...