US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 3 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,626, issued on June 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decrease in bit efficiency is suppressed. An information processing device includes an encoding unit (101) that encodes a picture including two or more subpictures to generate encoded data; a metadata generation unit (102) that generates subpicture mapping information including first size information of a first subpicture among the two or more subpictures and information tha...