US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 27 for "Motion-compensated compression of dynamic voxelized point clouds" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,976, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Motion-compensated compression of dynamic voxelized point clouds" was invented by Philip A. Chou (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ricardo L. de Queiroz (Brasilia, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of innovations in the area of point cloud encoding and decoding. Example embodiments can reduce the computational complexity and/or computational resource usage during 3D video encoding by selectively encoding one or more 3D-point-cloud blocks using an inter-frame coding (e.g., motion compensation) technique that...