US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 17 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., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,117, issued on March 17, 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 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 for encoding three-dimensional points having a hierarchical structure, the three-dimensional data encoding method including: setting one prediction mode out of two or more prediction modes each for calculat...