US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 9 for "Face count reduction for lossy mesh compression" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,395, issued on June 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Face count reduction for lossy mesh compression" was invented by Thuong Nguyen Canh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, 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 by determining a face normal for each face in the mesh, classi...