US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 1 for "Uniform bitdepth scaling" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,316, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Uniform bitdepth scaling" was invented by Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiaozhong Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bitstream that includes base mesh information of a base mesh is received. The base mesh includes a subset of a plurality of vertices of a mesh in a current mesh frame. A position of a current vertex of the base mesh is determined based on a quantized position of the current vertex of the base mesh that is generated according to a bitdepth scaling function. The bitdepth scaling function is c...