US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 27 for "V-DMC octahedral normal coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,073, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"V-DMC octahedral normal coding" was invented by Anique Akhtar (San Diego), Geert Van der Auwera (San Diego), Reetu Hooda (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding or decoding a base mesh includes determining a two-dimensional (2D) octahedral representation of a prediction vector for predicting a 2D octahedral representation of a three-dimensional (3D) normal vector of a current vertex or current face of the base mesh, the normal vector extending outward from the cu...