US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 3 for "On coding of boundary UV2XYZ index for mesh compression" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,885, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"On coding of boundary UV2XYZ index for mesh compression" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Tian (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed in a decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream that includes (i) one or more two dimensional (2D) meshes corresponding to a three dimensional (3D) mesh and (ii) a 2D to 3D index array that maps each vertex in the one or more 2D meshes to a respective vertex in the 3D m...