US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, DIGITALINSIGHTS on May 19 for "Method and apparatus for point cloud coding using adaptive dead zone quantization" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,993, issued on May 19, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and DIGITALINSIGHTS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for point cloud coding using adaptive dead zone quantization" was invented by Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Seok Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud coding device and a method using a dead zone quantization scheme adaptively, when encoding attribute values of points in a point cloud, are disclosed. The point cloud coding device and method adjust the size of dead zones b...