US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing three-dimensional (3D) map" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,960, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing three-dimensional (3D) map" was invented by Xiaoran Cao (Hangzhou, China), Kangying Cai (Beijing) and Pei Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide methods and apparatuses for compressing and decompressing a three-dimensional (3D) map, to reduce a data volume of a 3D map. The method for compressing a 3D map includes: obtaining a 3D map descriptor, where the 3D map descriptor corresponds to at least one 3D map point of the 3D map; performing binarizat...