ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,723, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus and method" was invented by Satoru Kuma (Tokyo) and Ohji Nakagami (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method capable of reducing a decrease in flexibility in controlling an amount of coding point cloud data. There are formed a reference structure of geometry data in coding of a point cloud that represents a three-dimensional object as a set of points, corrected the geometry data so that a coding amount decreases, derived, on the basis of the formed reference str...