US 11,790,567 B2
Information processing apparatus and method
Ohji Nakagami, Tokyo (JP); Koji Yano, Tokyo (JP); Satoru Kuma, Tokyo (JP); and Tsuyoshi Kato, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/45,417
Filed by SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 28, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/013534
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 5, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/198520, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 17, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-076224 (JP), filed on Apr. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0158575 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06T 9/40 (2006.01); G06F 17/18 (2006.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 9/40 (2013.01) [G06F 17/18 (2013.01); G06T 9/001 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a point distribution update section that updates, for Octree encoding of point cloud data, a point distribution of child nodes of a current node in accordance with a peripheral point distribution around the current node; and
an Octree encoding section that generates a sequence of signals by performing Octree encoding with the point distribution updated by the point distribution update section.