US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Nov. 11 for "Skinning method and apparatus for virtual object, electronic device, storage medium, and computer program product" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,240, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Skinning method and apparatus for virtual object, electronic device, storage medium, and computer program product" was invented by Tiancai Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skinning method includes obtaining a three-dimensional model and an object skeleton of a virtual object, and determining a vertex position of a model vertex of the three-dimensional model and a joint position of a skeleton joint of the object skeleton. The vertex position is determined by at least the joint position. The method further includes determining ...