US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Jan. 27 for "Method and apparatus to encode mesh based on symmetry property" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,708, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus to encode mesh based on symmetry property" was invented by Thuong Nguyen Canh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a symmetry plane that the divides a mesh into a first side and a second side opposite the first side; performing, on the first side of the mesh, a decimation process to generate a decimated first side of the mesh; performing UV reparameterization on the decimated first side of the...