US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Sept. 1 for "Decoding method, encoding method, decoding device, and encoding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,314, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Decoding method, encoding method, decoding device, and encoding device" was invented by Noritaka Iguchi (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan) and Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method includes: calculating a first position on a polar coordinate system, using a first residual generated by predicting a position of a first three-dimensional point on the polar coordinate system; calculating a second position by transforming the polar coordinate system of the first position int...