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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2022
Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd., Beijing, CN;
Sebastien Lasserre, Beijing, CN;
Jonathan Taquet, Beijing, CN;
BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD., Beijing, CN;
Abstract
There is provided methods and apparatus of encoding/decoding a point cloud captured by a set of sensors. The encoding method obtains a list of ordered points of the point cloud by ordering the points according to a lexicographic order based on azimuthal angles and sensor indices associated with points of the point cloud; obtains a next point following a current point in the list of ordered points and having an order index different of an order index of the current point, and obtains a number of duplicated points equals to a number of points following the current point that have an order index equals to the order index of the current point; encodes the number of duplicated points and encodes an order index difference representing a difference between the order index of the next point and the order index of the current point.