ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,981, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and method thereof" was invented by Mitsuru Katsumata (Tokyo), Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi (Tokyo), Masaru Ikeda (Tokyo), Takeshi Tsukuba (Tokyo) and Kenji Kondo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and a method, in which an image quality improvement technology required for reproducing contents can be easily used.Image quality improvement technology information regarding an image quality improvement technology for improving an image quality of an image to be encoded is generate...