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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2022
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Toshiyasu Sugio, Osaka, JP;
Noritaka Iguchi, Osaka, JP;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: adding a first information item to a bitstream, the first information item indicating whether a duplicated point is available, the duplicated point representing, using a single node, position information items of two or more three-dimensional points having a same position information item in a prediction tree showing a reference relation in predictive encoding; and adding second information items to the bitstream when the first information item indicates that the duplicated point is available, the second information items each corresponding to a different one of nodes included in the prediction tree, and indicating a total number of one or more three-dimensional points included in the different one of the nodes.