ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,918, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Chart based mesh compression" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Tian (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, 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 one or more 2D meshes corresponding to a 3D mesh. The method includes reconstructing one or more boundary vertices of each of the one or more 2D meshes. The method includes determining whether a reconstruction mode for reconstructing...