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Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2023
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

David Flynn, Darmstadt, DE;

Khaled Mammou, Vancouver, CA;

Fabrice A. Robinet, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 9/40 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 9/40 (2013.01); G06T 17/005 (2013.01); G06T 2210/56 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example method includes receiving a plurality of points that represent a point cloud; representing a position of the point in each dimension of a three-dimensional space as a sequence of bits, where the position of the point is encoded according to a tree data structure; partitioning at least one of the sequences of bits into a first portion of bits and a second portion of bits; quantizing each of the second portions of bits according to a quantization step size, where the quantization step size is determined according to an exponential function having a quantization parameter value as an input and the quantization step size as an output; and generating a data structure representing the point cloud and including the quantized second portions of bits.


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