US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on March 3 for "Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,178, issued on March 3, 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 Chi Wang (Singapore), Pongsak Lasang (Singapore), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan) and Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: generating predicted position information using position information on three-dimensional points included in three-dime...