Patent 11315321 was granted and assigned to Intel on April, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus to facilitate encoding of point cloud data is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to receive point cloud data including a plurality of images and camera parameters, generate encoded point cloud data including a color texture image and a depth image having cropped regions for each of the plurality of images, and metadata to describe the camera parameters and a mapping of the cropped regions to a real coordinate space.