ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,369, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Mesh vertex displacements coding" was invented by Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Thuong Nguyen Canh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Jun Tian (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain an input mesh corresponding to volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, derive a curve of a mesh sequence from the input mesh corresponding to v...