US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 10 for "Texture coordinate compression using chart partition" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,202, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Texture coordinate compression using chart partition" was invented by Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and system for mesh compression are provided. The process may include generating a texture plane associated with a mesh comprising three-dimensional coordinates using mesh parameterization. The process may include predicting, for a triangle in the texture plane, texture coordinates of a first vertex among vertices of the triangle based on an e...