US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Feb. 24 for "Three-dimensional encoding/decoding with distance and direction components" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,231, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional encoding/decoding with distance and direction components" 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 encoding method includes: determining, by a first method, a first prediction value of a distance component included in position information of a three-dimensional point; and determining, by a second method, a second prediction value of a direction component included in the position...