US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on June 2 for "Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,623, issued on June 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: obtaining data units each including three-dimensional points; encoding the three-dimensional points included in each of the data units; and generating a bitstream including encoded data obtained by en...