US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Aug. 4 for "V3C syntax extension for mesh compression using sub-patches" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,141, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"V3C syntax extension for mesh compression using sub-patches" was invented by Danillo Graziosi (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Ali Tabatabai (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With the concept of sub-patches, the single geometry is described at the patch level, while the multiple attributes are then described at the sub-patch level. One application of the concept is the derivation of texture coordinates using projections for several sections of a mesh surface (affecting the attributes only), whereby the geometry of the who...