ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,912, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Keisuke Nakamura (Tokyo), Hiroshi Yamaguchi (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Ishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, reproduction processing based on each of 2D data and 3D data is switched.There is provided an information processing apparatus including a switching control unit that acquires the 2D data and the 3D data on the same subject and controls switching between first reproduction processing based on the 2D data and second reproduction processing based on the 3D data."

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