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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
David Flynn, Cupertino, CA (US);
Khaled Mammou, Cupertino, CA (US);
Fabrice A. Robinet, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An example device includes one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that when executed by the processors, cause the processors to receive points that represent a point cloud in three-dimensional space, and generate a data structure representing the point cloud. Generating the data structure includes encoding a position of each point in each dimension as a sequence of bits according to a tree data structure; partitioning each of the sequences into two or more portions according to a scaling depth; determining that a subset of the points is spatially isolated from a remainder of the points; quantizing each of the portions associated with the subset of the points according to a first quantization step size; quantizing each of the portions associated with the remainder of the points according to a second quantization step size; and including the quantized portions in the data structure.