US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Nov. 3 for "Efficient coding of attribute connectivity of polygon meshes" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,286, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Efficient coding of attribute connectivity of polygon meshes" was invented by Chao Huang (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 bitstream that includes coded information of a mesh with position vertices and non-position vertices is received. The coded information indicates whether a cut is applied to connections of the position vertices of the mesh. Whether the cut is applied is based on a comparison between a total number of the position vertices of the mesh and a total numbe...