US Patent Issued to Sony Group on May 20 for "Image processing apparatus and method with metadata selection relating to authenticity verification" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,912, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method with metadata selection relating to authenticity verification" was invented by Yoshiyuki Kunito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit that, based on a characteristic of captured image data, selects metadata relating to authenticity verification, of metadata including information of a plurality of items associated with the captured image data and sets marking information in the metadata relating to the authenticity verification."

The patent was filed on April 23, 2020,...