US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 24 for "Information processing device and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,981, issued on June 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and method" was invented by Ryohei Takahashi (Tokyo) and Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method capable of inhibiting an increase in a load on reproduction processing.Scalable decoding information is generated on the basis of a depth of a slice in the G-PCC content and a dependency relation between slices and is stored in the metadata area of the content file that stores the G-PCC content. Further, on the basis of the scalable decoding infor...