US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus of adaptive sampling for mesh compression by encoders" (California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,874, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus of adaptive sampling for mesh compression by encoders" was invented by Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an apparatus for mesh coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a data structure for a mesh frame with polygons representing a surface of an object. The data structure for the mesh frame includes a UV atlas that associates vert...