ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,372, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Predictive coding of boundary UV2XYZ index for mesh compression" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Tian (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus that receives a coded video bitstream from an encoder; retrieves, from the coded video bitstream, a mesh including a plurality of polygons that describe one or more surfaces of a volumetric object; predicts a current value of an index of the UV-to-XYZ index array ...