US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 18 for "Information processing apparatus and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,086, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and method" was invented by Mitsuru Katsumata (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 apparatus and a method capable of suppressing an increase in load of reproduction processing.A file storing a bitstream track storing a bitstream of content having a subpicture in a frame and an extract base track storing subpicture specifying information which is information for specifying a subpicture to be extracted in the bitstream track is generated. Fur...