US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 7 for "Decoding attribute values in geometry-based point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,172, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Decoding attribute values in geometry-based point cloud compression" was invented by Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for processing point cloud data is configured to determine a first attribute value for a first point of a point cloud, the first point being a closest already-decoded point to a current point of the point cloud; determine second and third attribute values for second and third points of the point cloud, the second and third points b...