US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Aug. 11 for "Three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,086, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" was invented by Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan) and Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data decoding method includes: selecting, from among contexts, a first context for an encoded first information item to be processed; and arithmetic-decoding the encoded first information item to be processed, using the first context, to g...