ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,925, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Kao Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoru Kuma (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Kato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ohji Nakagami (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus and method capable of suppressing a reduction in the quality of 3D data due to encoding and decoding. By dividing a mesh representing an object having a three-dimensional structure into patches, pair information indicating a pair constituted by a single vertex of the mesh or a plurality of vertices of a patch ge...