US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Aug. 11 for "Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and a reception method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,983, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and a reception method" was invented by Ikuo Tsukagoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is possible to enable a reception side to easily recognize that metadata is inserted into an audio stream. A metafile including meta information for acquiring an audio stream into which metadata is inserted through a reception device is transmitted. The identification information indicating that the metadata is inserted into the audio stream is inserted into the metafile. At the reception side, it is possible to e...