US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 24 for "Attribute layers and signaling in point cloud coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,680, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Attribute layers and signaling in point cloud coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), Fnu Hendry (San Diego) and Vladyslav Zakharchenko (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a plurality of coded sequences of point cloud coding (PCC) frames. The plurality of coded sequences of PCC frames represent a plurality of PCC attributes including geometry, texture, and one or more of reflectance, transparency, and normal. Each coded PCC fr...