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Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 08, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jungsun Kim, San Jose, CA (US);

Khaled Mammou, Vancouver, CA;

Alexandros Tourapis, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 9/001 (2013.01); G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06T 2210/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for three-dimensional (3D) visual volumetric content and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the 3D visual volumetric content. The encoder is configured to convert 3D visual volumetric content, such as a point cloud or mesh, into image based patch representations. The encoder is further configured to select one or more reference patches for copying or prediction, such that metadata for copying or predicting a patch based on the reference patch is signaled without explicitly signaling a full set of information for the copied or predicted patch. Likewise, a decoder is configured to receive such information and reconstruct a 3D version of the 3D visual volumetric content using both signaled and predicted or copied patches.


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