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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2023
Malikie Innovations Limited, Dublin, IE;
Adrian Buckley, Tracy, CA (US);
Gordon Peter Young, Kineton, GB;
Michael Peter Montemurro, Toronto, CA;
Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Stephen McCann, Southampton, GB;
Malikie Innovations Limited, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
Methods and devices for encoding a point cloud. A current node associated with a sub-volume is split into further sub-volumes, each further sub-volume corresponding to a child node of the current node, and, at the encoder, an occupancy pattern is determined for the current node based on occupancy status of the child nodes. A probability distribution is selected from among a plurality of probability distributions based on occupancy data for a plurality of nodes neighbouring the current node. The encoder entropy encodes the occupancy pattern based on the selected probability distribution to produce encoded data for the bitstream and updates the selected probability distribution. The decoder makes the same selection based on occupancy data for neighbouring nodes and entropy decodes the bitstream to reconstruct the occupancy pattern.