US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 24 for "Information processing apparatus and method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,678, issued on March 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Ryohei Takahashi (Tokyo) and Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method capable of suppressing an increase in load of reproduction processing.The metadata including the spatial configuration information of the subgroup and the dependency information of the subgroup and the layer-group is generated on the basis of the bitstream of the geometry of the 3D data, and the file storing the bitstream and the m...