US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Oct. 7 for "Methods for instance-based mesh coding" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,082, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods for instance-based mesh coding" was invented by Thuong Nguyen Canh (San Bruno, Calif.), Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) 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, partitioning the input mesh into a plurality of submeshes, each of the submeshes comprising a respective one of instances of objec...