ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,201, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Connectivity coding for symmetry mesh" was invented by Thuong Nguyen Canh (San Bruno, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Joel Jung (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding includes receiving a polygon mesh comprising a plurality of faces and a plurality vertices; separating the polygon mesh into a left side half mesh and a right side half mesh by a plane; extracting the left side half mesh comprising a first plurality of vertices in-plane and on a left side of the polygon mesh; remap...