US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 17 for "Mesh compression using coding units with different encoding parameters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,272, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Mesh compression using coding units with different encoding parameters" was invented by Khaled Mammou (Danville, Calif.), Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jungsun Kim (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dimitri Podborski (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for a three-dimensional mesh. To compress the three-dimensional mesh, the encoder determines sub-meshes and for each sub-mesh: texture patches and geometry patches. Also, the sub-meshes may be grouped into patches, patch-groups, and...