ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,098, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Real time simplification of meshes" was invented by Khaled Mammou (Vancouver, Canada), Afshin Taghavi Nasrabadi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maneli Noorkami (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Fabrice A. Robinet (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding computing device receives a bit stream for compressed 3D volumetric content. The bit stream includes video encoded image frames comprising packed attribute patch images and depth maps for the 3D volumetric content. Instead of generating a mesh having a vertex for each depth value signaled in the depth map, the d...