US Patent Issued to HONOR DEVICE on Dec. 2 for "Method and apparatus for predictively coding and decoding depth information of point cloud" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,920, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for predictively coding and decoding depth information of point cloud" was invented by Wei Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Fuzheng Yang (Shenzhen, China), Ke Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Jiarun Song (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coding includes: obtaining original point cloud data; creating an adaptive prediction list of the depth information of the point cloud; and predictively coding the depth information of the point cloud based on the adaptive prediction list, to obtain codestream information. According to t...