US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 15 for "Local adaptive inter prediction for G-PCC" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,926, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Local adaptive inter prediction for G-PCC" was invented by Luong Pham Van (San Diego), Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding point cloud data comprises: determining that the point cloud data is split into a plurality of largest prediction units (LPUs), wherein at least two of the LPUs have different sizes along different directions; performing inter prediction to determine predicted points for the LPUs; and reconstructing points within th...