US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Oct. 27 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., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,190, issued on Oct. 27, 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 encodes method of encoding three-dimensional data items in time series. Each of the three-dimensional data items includes a geometry information item and an attribute information item in association with a same time point. T...