US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Feb. 3 for "V3C syntax extension for mesh compression" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,884, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the current implementation of V-DMC, the (u, v) coordinates are generated using Microsoft UVAtlas and they, together with the 3D positions and the topology, are carried in the base mesh sub-bitstream. High level syntax structures described herein support projection-based atlas map generation, and the means to derive the (u, v) coordinates on the decoder side using ...