Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12464145-B2
Application number	US-202418410582-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 11, 2024
Priority date	Feb 5, 2019
Publication date	Nov 4, 2025
Grant date	Nov 4, 2025

Abstract

A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: calculating coefficient values from pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data; quantizing the coefficient values individually to generate quantized values; and generating a bitstream including the quantized values. Each of the coefficient values belongs to any one of layers. In the quantizing, each of the coefficient values is quantized using a quantization parameter for a layer to which the coefficient value belongs among the layers, and the bitstream includes first information and pieces of second information, the first information indicating a reference quantization parameter, the pieces of second information being for calculating quantization parameters for the layers from the reference quantization parameter.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A three-dimensional data encoding method, comprising:
calculating coefficient values from pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data, the attribute information including information related to a vector; quantizing the coefficient values individually to generate quantized values; and generating a bitstream including the quantized values, wherein each of the coefficient values belongs to any one of layers, in the quantizing, each of the coefficient values is quantized using a quantization parameter for a corresponding layer to which the coefficient value belongs among the layers, the three-dimensional data encoding method further comprises calculating the quantization parameter for each of the layers, and the bitstream includes pieces of first information, the pieces of first information being for the calculating of the quantization parameter for each of the layers.

2 . The three-dimensional data encoding method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the pieces of first information indicates a difference between a reference quantization parameter and a quantization parameter for a corresponding one of the layers among the quantization parameters.

3 . The three-dimensional data encoding method according to claim 1 , wherein the bitstream further includes a first flag indicating whether or not the pieces of first information are included in the bitstream.

4 . The three-dimensional data encoding method according to claim 1 , wherein the bitstream further includes third information indicating a total number of the pieces of first information included in the bitstream.

5 . The three-dimensional data encoding method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the three-dimensional points is classified into any one of the layers in accordance with geometry information of the three-dimensional point.

6 . The three-dimensional data encoding method according to claim 1 , wherein the coefficient values are generated by sorting each of the pieces of attribute information to one of a higher frequency component and a lower frequency component to be classified into the layers.

7 . A three-dimensional data decoding method, comprising:
calculating a quantization parameter for each of a plurality of layers using pieces of first information, the pieces of first information being included in a bitstream; inverse-quantizing each of quantized values included in the bitstream, using a quantization parameter for a corresponding layer of the plurality of layers to which the quantized value belongs among the quantization parameters calculated in the calculating, to generate coefficient values; and calculating, from the coefficient values generated in the inverse-quantizing, pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data, the attribute information including information related to a vector.

8 . The three-dimensional data decoding method according to claim 7 , wherein each of the pieces of first information indicates a difference between a reference quantization parameter and a quantization parameter for a corresponding one of the layers among the quantization parameters.

9 . The three-dimensional data decoding method according to claim 7 , wherein the bitstream further includes a first flag indicating whether or not the pieces of first information are included in the bitstream.

10 . The three-dimensional data decoding method according to claim 7 , wherein the bitstream further includes third information indicating a total number of the pieces of first information included in the bitstream.

11 . The three-dimensional data decoding method according to claim 7 , wherein each of the three-dimensional points is classified into any one of the layers in accordance with geometry information of the three-dimensional point.

12 . The three-dimensional data decoding method according to claim 7 , wherein the coefficient values are generated by sorting each of the pieces of attribute information to one of a higher frequency component and a lower frequency component to be classified into the layers.

13 . A three-dimensional data encoding device, comprising:
a processor; and memory, wherein using the memory, the processor: calculates coefficient values from pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data, the attribute information including information related to a vector; quantizes the coefficient values individually to generate quantized values; and generates a bitstream including the quantized values, wherein each of the coefficient values belongs to any one of layers, in the quantizing, each of the coefficient values is quantized using a quantization parameter for a corresponding layer to which the coefficient value belongs among the layers, the three-dimensional data encoding method further comprises calculating the quantization parameter for each of the layers, and the bitstream includes pieces of first information, the pieces of first information being for the calculating of the quantization parameter for each of the layers.

14 . A three-dimensional data decoding device, comprising:
a processor; and memory, wherein using the memory, the processor: calculates a quantization parameter for each of a plurality of layers using pieces of first information, the pieces of first information being included in a bitstream; inverse-quantizes each of quantized values included in the bitstream, using a quantization parameter for a corresponding layer of the plurality of layers to which the quantized value belongs among the quantization parameters calculated in the calculating, to generate coefficient values; and calculates, from the coefficient values generated in the inverse-quantizing, pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data, the attribute information including information related to a vector.

15 . The three-dimensional data encoding method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the layers is a Level of Detail (LoD) layer or a Region Adaptive Hierarchical Transform (RAHT) layer.

16 . The three-dimensional data encoding method according to claim 1 , wherein
the bitstream further includes second information, the second information indicating a reference quantization parameter, and the quantization parameters for the layers are calculated from the reference quantization parameter.

17 . The three-dimensional data encoding method according to claim 1 , wherein a total number of the pieces of first information included in the bitstream is equal to a total number of the layers.

18 . The three-dimensional data decoding method according to claim 7 , wherein each of the layers is a Level of Detail (LoD) layer or a Region Adaptive Hierarchical Transform (RAHT) layer.

19 . The three-dimensional data decoding method according to claim 7 , wherein
the bitstream further includes second information, the second information indicating a reference quantization parameter, and the quantization parameters for the layers are calculated from the reference quantization parameter.

20 . The three-dimensional data decoding method according to claim 7 , wherein a total number of the pieces of first information included in the bitstream is equal to a total number of the layers.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Corp America

Inventors

• Sugio Toshiyasu
• Iguchi Noritaka
• Han Chung Dean
• Wang Chi
• Lasang Pongsak

Classifications

• H04N19/597 Primary

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