ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,100, issued on March 18, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Dynamic mesh vertex displacements coding" was invented by Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Tian (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiang Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus that derives a curve of a mesh sequence from a frame of a video bitstream, the curve comprising a plurality of vertices; subdivides the curve by adding a plurality of subdivided vertices; calculates one or more displacement vectors between each of the plurality of vertices on the curv...