| CPC G06T 9/001 (2013.01) [G06T 7/10 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20021 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims | 

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               1. A method comprising: 
            obtaining a patch from a geometry image, wherein pixel values of the patch comprise differential 3D coordinates of at least one point of a point cloud, 
                decoding an information representative of three shift values to be applied to points reconstructed from the patch along respectively a tangent axis, a bitangent axis and a normal axis, wherein decoding the information representative of the three shift values is based on a difference between a bitdepth used for representing 3D coordinates of points of the point cloud and a bitdepth of a decoder used for decoding the geometry image obtaining 3D coordinates of a reference point of the patch from the decoded information and the bitdepth of the decoder used for decoding the geometry image, reconstructing 3D coordinates of the at least one point based on the 3D coordinates of the reference point. 
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