US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Dec. 9 for "Mesh compression with deduced texture coordinates" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,993, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Mesh compression with deduced texture coordinates" was invented by Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) 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 (encoding and/or decoding). In some examples, an apparatus for coding mesh includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes, three dimensional (3D) coordinates of vertices in a first 3D mesh frame and connectivity i...