US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 2 for "Systems and methods for reflection symmetry-based mesh coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,220, issued on June 2, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for reflection symmetry-based mesh coding" was invented by Thuong Nguyen Canh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiang Zhang (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: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for encoding video. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a mesh with polygons representing a surface of an object; detecting a first symmetric region in the mesh that includes a first symmetry line to d...