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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2021
Tencent America Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xiang Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Weiwei Feng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wen Gao, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Shan Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Bing Jian, Cupertino, CA (US);
TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses of encoding a video stream encoded using video point cloud coding include obtaining a source point cloud; generating an occupancy map including one or more pixels based on the source point cloud, an occupancy value associated with each pixel being a non-binary value; encoding the occupancy map to generate an encoded occupancy map, wherein a block of the encoded occupancy map corresponds to the one or more pixels of the occupancy map; selecting an occupancy value of the block based on the one or more pixels; and generating an encoded video stream based on the selected occupancy value.