US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 19 for "Segment based compression methods for mesh compression" (California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,101, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Segment based compression methods for mesh compression" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for mesh coding (e.g., compression and decompression). In some examples, an apparatus for mesh coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes, using a decoder supporting a first bitdepth, a plurality of segmental at...