US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Oct. 27 for "Dual-degree based coding algorithm for polygon mesh compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,185, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Dual-degree based coding algorithm for polygon mesh compression" was invented by Chao Huang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Thuong Nguyen Canh (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: "This disclosure relates generally to coding and decoding of 3-dimensional (3D) mesh and specifically to efficient coding of a vertex degree and face degree of 3D polygon mesh. In some implementations, when encoding a face, a vertex of the face following a split vertex of the face may be linked rather than sig...