US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Aug. 25 for "Information processing device and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,420, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and method" was invented by Satoru Kuma (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Kao Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ohji Nakagami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing device and method capable of independently controlling granularities of UV coordinates and vertex positions. Meta information including vertex information with a first granularity which indicates coordinates of vertices of a mesh is encoded, a geometry image with a second granularity of the mesh is encoded, a texture image with a ...