US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 16 for "Information processing apparatus and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,679, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus 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 apparatus and method capable of suppressing an increase in a load of a reproduction process.A scene description file that describes a scene of 3D object content is generated, the scene description file including information associated with Media Presentation Description (MPD) that stores metadata of the 3D object content distributed by usi...