ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,151, issued on July 14, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mesh decoding device, mesh encoding device, mesh decoding method, and program" was invented by Hitoshi Nishimura (Fujimino, Japan) and Kei Kawamura (Fujimino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit of a mesh decoding device 200: generates a binarization syntax by performing arithmetic decoding on the displacement bit stream; updates a context value using the binarization syntax; generates a context value for output using the context value, a bit position, and a syntax read from a context buffer 206D; generates and outputs a syntax to the context buffer 206D by multi...