US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 14 for "Method to generate displacement for symmetry mesh" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,836, issued on April 14, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method to generate displacement for symmetry mesh" was invented by Thuong Nguyen Canh (San Bruno, Calif.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a mesh comprises: determining a first plane based on a first input vertex located on a first side of the mesh, a direction vector, and a first vector selected along an axis having a largest angle from the direction vector; determining a second plane based on a second input vertex on a symmetry plane,...