US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 30 for "Adaptive wavelet transform" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,838, issued on June 30, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive wavelet transform" was invented by Jun Tian (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (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 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, partition a plurality of vertices of the mesh into a plurality of groups, and decode the encoded volumetric data by predicting the vertices in each group of the plu...