US Patent Issued to Canon on July 7 for "Method, device, and computer program for improving random access in point cloud data bit-stream" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,915, issued on July 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method, device, and computer program for improving random access in point cloud data bit-stream" was invented by Lionel Tocze (Saint Domineuc, France), Franck Denoual (Saint Domineuc, France) and Frederic Maze (Langan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments of the disclosure, it is provided a method for encapsulating point cloud data into an ISOBMFF-based media file, the point cloud data being organized in point cloud frames. After having generated a track describing a sequence of samples, each sample comprising at least one point cloud frame, the...