ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,115, issued on March 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Grouping of duplicate vertices in position compression" 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: "Method, apparatus, and system for video encoding are provided. The process may include receiving volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) content. The process may also include determining a first collection of one or more duplicate vertices in a first frame of the volumetric data using a mapping function and then determining a second collectio...