US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on March 17 for "Curvature-guided inter-patch 3D inpainting for dynamic mesh coding" (Finnish, German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,745, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Curvature-guided inter-patch 3D inpainting for dynamic mesh coding" was invented by Patrice Rondao Alface (Evere, Belgium), Aleksei Martemianov (Tampere, Finland), Lukasz Kondrad (Munich), Lauri Aleksi Ilola (Tampere, Finland) and Sebastian Schwarz (Unterhaching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus performs an encoding process including: obtaining a mesh representation of a 3D object; segmenting the mesh representation into 2D projections; reconstructing a 3D mesh from the segmented 2D projections by stitching reconstructed patches, the...