ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,645, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Inter prediction coding for geometry point cloud compression" was invented by Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Geert Van der Auwera (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 encoding or decoding point cloud data may be configured to, responsive to determining to predict a current point in a current frame using an inter prediction mode: identify a reference frame; derive one or more motion compensated reference points from the reference frame; selectively resample points in the ...