US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Oct. 14 for "Information processing device and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,649, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information processing device and method" was invented by Takuya Kitamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takefumi Nagumo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method capable of suppressing a drop in encoding efficiency.A valid most significant bit position of a data unit constituted by a plurality of samples is detected, a bit string below the valid most significant bit position is extracted as valid data from the samples, and a bitstream including the valid most signif...