ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,643, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and method" was invented by Yuka Kiyama (Tokyo), 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 that enable an increase in data amount of scene description to be curbed. A scene description file including track information that designates, as a reference target, some tracks with information for accessing other tracks, from among a plurality of tracks of a file container that manages information regarding data of the 3D o...