US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Sept. 2 for "Skinning method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,437, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Skinning method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Tianyuan Chang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skinning method includes: acquiring a 3D mesh for skinning of a skeletal structure of a 3D object, the 3D mesh including a plurality of vertices and the skeletal structure including a plurality of joints; respectively acquiring global joint weight information corresponding to the plurality of vertices, the global joint weight information of a vertex including associated joints of the vertices predicte...