ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,626, issued on June 30, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus and method" was invented by Tomoya Naganuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoru Kuma (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Yasuda (Saitama, Japan) and Ohji Nakagami (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing apparatus and method to make it possible to reduce a decrease in encoding efficiency. A predictive residual that is a difference between a reflected light intensity that is attribute data of a point cloud representing an object having a three-dimensional shape as a set of points and a predicted value of the reflected light...