US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Dec. 16 for "Mesh optimization using novel segmentation" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,624, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Mesh optimization using novel segmentation" was invented by Ethan Schur (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus that renders a mesh from one or more virtual camera views of an object, the one or more virtual camera views being projections of the mesh onto a plurality of 2D planes; inputs the one or more virtual camera views into a fully-convolutional model for real-time segmentation; generates one or more 2D pixel-wise mask...