US Patent 10356459 Information processing apparatus and method

The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable recognition of performance required for decoding more accurately. A file of an MP4 file format, in which information specifying a plurality of NAL units corresponding to a partial image which can be independently decoded in a whole image is stored in moov and the encoded partial image is stored in mdat, is generated, and the generated file is transmitted. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus such as an image encoding apparatus or an image decoding apparatus.