ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,815, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"On compression of a mesh with multiple texture maps" was invented by Wen Gao (West Windsor, N.J.), Jun Tian (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 and apparatus comprising computer code for mesh coding configured to cause a processor or processors to receive an input dynamic mesh representing a volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, wherein the input dynamic mesh comprises a plurality of mesh frames; determine that a mesh frame among ...