ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,313, issued on June 10, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).
"Patch generation for dynamic mesh 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: "An architecture includes new blocks that transform mesh connectivity to enable lossy compression. In addition, a method generates surface patches from meshes and preserves the overall aspect of the object, while generating patches for efficient encoding using the V3C standard. Triangles are joined together into connected compone...