ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,084, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method and device for coding the geometry of a point cloud" was invented by Celine Guede (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Joan Llach Pinsach (Cesson-Sevigne, France) and Kangying Cai (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present principles relate to a method and device method for encoding depth values of orthogonally projected points of a point cloud onto a projection plane. The present principles also relate to a method and device for decoding a point cloud, a computer readable program and a video signal."
The patent was filed on Oct. 2...