US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on March 31 for "Predictive coding of texture coordinates for polygon mesh compression" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,067, issued on March 31, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Predictive coding of texture coordinates for polygon mesh compression" was invented by Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), 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 of mesh processing includes receiving coded information of a mesh, the coded information including position connectivity of a plurality of 3D vertices of a mesh in a 3D space, and a correspondence of the plurality of 3D vertices to UV vertices in a UV space for the mesh; determining UV connec...