US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, DIGITALINSIGHTS on July 7 for "Method and apparatus for LiDAR point cloud coding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,916, issued on July 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and DIGITALINSIGHTS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for LiDAR point cloud coding" was invented by Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Seok Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR point cloud coding method includes determining, from LiDAR information, a coding block that is a point cloud encoding/decoding unit, to improve the LiDAR point cloud coding efficiency. The LiDAR point cloud coding method also i...