US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Oct. 28 for "Image processing method and data structure of metadata" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,295, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing method and data structure of metadata" was invented by Naomi Kurahara (Tokyo), Itaru Shimizu (Tokyo), Tetsu Ogawa (Tokyo), Satoshi Ezawa (Tokyo) and Kazuo Ishigame (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image processing method for image processing on a plurality of captured images obtained by operation of a formation flight. A satellite cluster management device and an image analysis server as image processing apparatuses perform predetermined image processing on the basis of satellite specification information for specifying an artifici...