ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,081, issued on May 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).
"Mesh patch sub-division" 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: "Ways to post-process a decoded mesh and modify received triangles per patch to improve the mesh geometry are described herein. Since the transmitted geometry contains the high-resolution surface information, the information is able to be applied to the mesh reconstruction operation to generate triangles that are aligned with the original surface....