US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 22 for "Adaptive quantization for instance-based mesh coding" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,349, issued on April 22, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive quantization for instance-based mesh coding" was invented by Thuong Nguyen Canh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain an input mesh comprising volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, derive a plurality of submeshes of the input mesh from a frame of the volumetric data, set bitdepths to a first submesh ...