US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Nov. 11 for "Predictive coding of boundary UV information for mesh compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,731, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Predictive coding of boundary UV information for mesh compression" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Tian (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 performed by at least one processor in a decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream that includes a compressed two dimensional (2D) mesh corresponding to a surface of three dimensional (3D) volumetric object. The method includes predicting a sampled 2D coordinate from...