US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 29 for "Method and apparatus for UV attributes coding for symmetry mesh" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,990, issued on July 29, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for UV attributes coding for symmetry mesh" was invented by Thuong Nguyen Canh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising segmenting an input symmetry mesh into multiple non-connected UV segments; partitioning at least one UV segment via a plane that partitions the at least one UV segment into a first side and a second side; reorganizing the plurality of vertices included in the first side of the at least one UV segment; perform a 2D symmet...