US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Inter prediction candidate selection in point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,006, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Inter prediction candidate selection in 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: "Techniques and devices are described for processing point cloud data. An example device includes one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to process a syntax element indicative of whether a previous previous frame can be used for inter prediction for one or more points of point cloud data. The p...