US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 2 for "Optimal sub-mesh encoding order for initial vertex selection in position coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,223, issued on June 2, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Optimal sub-mesh encoding order for initial vertex selection in position coding" 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 and apparatus comprising computer code for mesh attribute coding using a dual degree encoder or decoder configured to cause a processor or processors to receive at least two sub-meshes and determine a pair of vertices with a minimum cost for prediction, wherein a first vertex of the pai...