Patent ID: 11875538
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. The point cloud encoding method according to claim 1, wherein the point cloud group is a group of frames (GOF); or the point cloud group is a sub-GOF comprising a plurality of frames of point clouds that are temporally consecutive in one GOF; and the obtaining global matched patches of the N frames of point clouds comprises:
obtaining a reference point cloud that is any frame of point cloud in the GOF; and
for an ith patch in the reference point cloud, if a patch that matches a target patch exists in each non-reference point cloud in the GOF, determining that the ith patch and the patch that matches the target patch are global matched patches, wherein the target patch is the ith patch or the target patch is a matched patch of the ith patch, and the ith patch is any patch in the reference point cloud.