ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,313, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).
"Mesh geometry 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: "Depth image generation is improved by more efficient encoding using video codecs. The mapping of the depth to the luma channel is performed by not using all bits available, and with the remaining bits, a depth scaling factor is generated and incorporated into the bilinear interpolation algorithm used during rasterization. A normal filtering proced...