US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Dec. 9 for "Method and apparatus to encode symmetry mesh with multiple symmetry planes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,994, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus to encode symmetry mesh with multiple symmetry planes" was invented by Thuong Nguyen Canh (San Bruno, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Fang-Yi Chao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by at least one processor of an encoder includes bounding a mesh via a bounding box; partitioning the mesh via a global symmetry plane that partitions the mesh into a first side and a second side that is opposite to the first side; dividing the mes...