US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Jan. 13 for "Vertex connectivity coding for mesh compression" (Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,917, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Vertex connectivity coding for mesh compression" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry decodes, from a bitstream carrying a 3D mesh, coordinates of vertices in the 3D mesh. The 3D mesh represents a surface of an object with polygons, the polygons are defined by the vertices and an original connectivity having original edges connecting the vertices. The processing circ...