US Patent Issued to Sharp on Oct. 20 for "3D data coding apparatus and 3D data decoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,297, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"3D data coding apparatus and 3D data decoding apparatus" was invented by Keiichiro Takada (Sakai City, Japan), Yasuaki Tokumo (Sakai City, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai City, Japan), Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai City, Japan) and Tomoko Aono (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D data decoding apparatus for decoding coded data and decoding 3D data including attribute information includes a header decoder that decodes characteristics information of refinement and activation information of the refinement, and a refiner that performs refinement processing of...