US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 30 for "Base mesh coding by using surface reflection symmetry" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,806, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Base mesh coding by using surface reflection symmetry" was invented by Thuong Nguyen Canh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xiang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding includes receiving a polygon mesh comprising a plurality of original vertices. The method further includes deriving an initial base mesh from the polygon mesh, the initial base mesh including a first set of base mesh vertices. The method further includes performing a symmetrize process on the in...