US Patent Issued to Sony Group on July 7 for "Encoding device and encoding method, decoding device and decoding method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,156, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Encoding device and encoding method, decoding device and decoding method, and program" was invented by Toru Chinen (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Nishiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Runyu Shi (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuyuki Hatanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a decoding device including at least one circuit configured to acquire one or more encoded audio signals including a plurality of channels and/or a plurality of objects and priority information for each of the plurality of channels and/or the plurality of objects...