ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,417, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method, device and storage medium for efficiently compressing a dynamic 3D model sequence based on 4D fusion" was invented by Xiang Li (Beijing), Hong Shang (Beijing), Zhan Shi (Beijing) and Kuanhong Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for efficiently compressing a dynamic 3D model sequence based on 4D fusion. In some embodiments, comprising: storing a 3D model of one frame of the dynamic 3D model sequence as a reference model; determining an initial correspondence between vertices of the reference model and a target m...