US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Dec. 23 for "Patch mesh connectivity coding" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,578, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Patch mesh connectivity coding" was invented by Danillo Graziosi (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Alexandre Zaghetto (San Jose, Calif.) and Ali Tabatabai (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The connectivity information and mapping information of a mesh surface patch are able to be encoded after projection to 2D. Regarding the connectivity information, the projection operation does not change the connection between vertices, so the same list of connected vertices are able to be carried in the atlas data. Similarly, the mappin...