US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 14 for "On sub-division of mesh sequences" (California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,837, issued on April 14, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"On sub-division of mesh sequences" was invented by Wen Gao (West Windsor, N.J.), Jun Tian (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain, from a bitstream, a mesh representing an encoded volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, and decode the encoded volumetric data based on displacement vectors of vertices of the mesh, and the displacement vectors ar...