US Patent Issued to Apple on March 24 for "Signaling displacement data for video-based mesh coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,253, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Signaling displacement data for video-based mesh coding" was invented by Jungsun Kim (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Khaled Mammou (Danville, 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 displacements to be applied to sub-division locations of a base mesh. The displacement values may be signaled in their own sub-bitstream, e.g., a dedicated displacement data sub-bitstream, or...