US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 25 for "Coordinate conversion for geometry point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,415, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Coordinate conversion for geometry point cloud compression" was invented by Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Reetu Hooda (San Diego), Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud encoder and point cloud decoder are configured to convert Cartesian coordinates of a point of point cloud data to spherical coordinates. The spherical coordinates include a radius, an azimuth value, and a laser ID. The point cloud encoder and point cloud decoder may perform the conversion for the azimuth value ...