US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Oct. 20 for "Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,860, issued on Oct. 20, 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 Chung Dean Han (Singapore), Pongsak Lasang (Singapore), Keng Liang Loi (Singapore), 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 first three-dimensional points; encoding the first three-dimensional points using one of a plurality of ...