ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,991, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Signaling camera parameters in point cloud coding" was invented by Jeffrey Moguillansky (Addison, Texas), Vladyslav Zakharchenko (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

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 two dimensional (2D) patches in an atlas frame and a camera offset for a camera. The patches are decoded and converted to a three dimensional (3D) patch coordinate system to obtain a point cloud frame. An offset matrix is determined base...