US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 26 for "Vertex prediction based on decoded neighbors" (Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,823, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Vertex prediction based on decoded neighbors" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), 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 volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, derive a first layer of a mesh including a plurality of first vertices from at least one frame of the volumetric data, determine dis...