US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Oct. 28 for "Encoding device and method, decoding device and method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,471, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Encoding device and method, decoding device and method, and program" was invented by Minoru Tsuji (Chiba, Japan) and Toru Chinen (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an encoding device and method, a decoding device and method, and a program capable of realizing sense-of-distance control based on intention of a content creator.The encoding device includes: an object encoding unit that encodes audio data of an object; a metadata encoding unit that encodes metadata including position information of the object; a sense-of-dista...