US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 19 for "Point cloud data transmission device, point cloud data transmission method, point cloud data reception device, and point cloud data reception method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,997, issued on May 19, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Point cloud data transmission device, point cloud data transmission method, point cloud data reception device, and point cloud data reception method" was invented by Sooyeon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sejin Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Yousun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud data transmission method according to embodiments may comprise the steps of: acquiring point cloud data; encoding geometry information including the positions of points of the point cloud data; encoding, on the basis of the geometry information, att...