US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 3 for "Residual prediction for geometry point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,245, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Residual prediction for geometry point cloud compression" was invented by Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego), Bappaditya Ray (San Diego), Luong Pham Van (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for decoding a point cloud includes a memory configured to store data representing the point cloud and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: decode a residual value; determine whether residual prediction is to be applied to a current point of the point cloud;...