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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Christopher L. Gorman, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/500 ;
Abstract
Triangle mesh compression. In one embodiment, a method first generates a dual graph from a triangle mesh. The method then generates a binary tree structure from the dual graph. In one embodiment, generation of the tree structure includes removing a node of the dual graph from a stack, adding the node to a list, and determining node connections. Upon determining that there are two connections, the method adds an edge to the structure and adds a connected-to node to the stack. Upon determining that there are three connections, the method adds a branch to the structure, and adds a first and a second connected-to node to the stack.