US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 3 for "Image management method and data structure of metadata" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,121, issued on March 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image management method and data structure of metadata" was invented by Kazuo Ishigame (Tokyo), Itaru Shimizu (Tokyo), Naomi Kurahara (Tokyo), Satoshi Ezawa (Tokyo) and Tetsu Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image management method and a data structure of metadata that allow for management of an image captured by an artificial satellite. A management device that manages a captured image captured by a satellite adds metadata that includes at least information regarding a person related to the captured image to the captured image."

The patent ...