US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Motion compression for efficient dynamic mesh coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,648, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Motion compression for efficient dynamic mesh coding" was invented by Khaled Mammou (Danville, Calif.) and Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding motion data associated with an input data corresponding to set of 3D meshes M(i), the motion data including at least one of geometry and vertex attribute changes from one frame to another, can include: dividing input mesh M(i) into a set of patches P(i, j), each patch P(i, j) corresponding to a corresponding patch P(k, l) in a previously encoded reference frame; quant...