ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,974,028, issued on April 30, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing device, information processing method, reproduction processing device, and reproduction processing method" was invented by Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi (Tokyo) and Ryohei Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, a reproduction processing device, and a reproduction processing method that reduce the amount of information and provide a viewer with a high-quality viewing experience. A preprocessing unit individually generates SubSample information used for decoding each ...