US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 1 for "Inter prediction in point cloud compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,315, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Inter prediction in 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 a point cloud comprises a memory configured to store point cloud data for the point cloud; and one or more processors configured to: determine a residual value associated with a current point of the point cloud, the residual value associated with the current point being a radius residual or an azimuth residual; det...