US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 30 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,370, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Mitsuru Katsumata (Tokyo), Ryohei Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing device and an information processing method by which reproduction of a point cloud having no time information can be handled. Metadata that includes reproduction information necessary to reproduce encoded data obtained by encoding one frame of a point cloud by V-PCC or G-PCC and that includes reproduction feasibility in...