US Patent Issued to Canon on March 31 for "Method, device, and computer program for encapsulating region annotations in media tracks" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,112, issued on March 31, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method, device, and computer program for encapsulating region annotations in media tracks" was invented by Frederic Maze (Langan, France), Franck Denoual (Saint Domineuc, France) and Herve Ruellan (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a method of generating a media file, the method comprising: generating a first track of media data samples; generating a region track associated with the first track, each sample of the region track comprising a region description data structure comprising geometry information of one or more regions in...