ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,235, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Takashi Kawai (Tokyo), Seiichi Inomata (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Takao (Kanagawa, Japan) and Fumito Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires meta-information regarding breathing correction associated with a moving image, and a breathing correction unit that performs breathing correction for the moving image on the basis of the meta-information."

The patent was filed on May 26, 2023, under Applic...