US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Oct. 14 for "Texture coordinate prediction in mesh compression" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,091, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and system for texture coordinate prediction for mesh compression are provided. The process may include receiving, for a mesh, a coordinate of a first vertex and a coordinate of a prediction candidate vertex in a three dimensional (3D) space. The process may include determining a st...