US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 16 for "Temporal prediction based vertex position compression" (California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,556, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Temporal prediction based vertex position compression" was invented by Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, 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 plurality of neighboring vertices of a current vertex in a current frame of a mesh is determined. The current frame corresponds to the mesh at a first time instance. Each of the plurality of neighboring vertices is connected to the current vertex through a respective edge in the mesh. A plural...