ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,681, issued on March 24, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).
"Point cloud data frames compression" was invented by Stergios Poularakis (London) and Christian Eyles (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a frame of a sequence of frames of point cloud data for rendering a dynamic 3D scene, wherein each frame comprises a plurality of points, and each point comprises a 3D position and one or more attributes, the method comprising: obtaining a current point to be encoded in a current frame; identifying a preceding point encoded in a preceding frame which corresponds to the current point to be encoded...