ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,271, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Data compression equipment, data compression methods, and programs" was invented by Yusuke Sakurahara (Musashino, Japan), Yukihiro Goto (Musashino, Japan) and Nazuki Honda (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a data compression device, a data compression method, and a program capable of thinning out a point group acquired by a three-dimensional (3D) laser scanner without affecting the creation of a 3D model. A data compression device according to the present invention is a data compression device which compresses 3D...