INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD

The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method that enable to more easily achieve scalable decoding of point cloud data.In encoding of a point cloud representing an object having a three-dimensional shape as a set of points, control is performed so as to prohibit combined use of scalable encoding that is an encoding method for generating scalably decodable coded data and scaling encoding that is an encoding method involving a change in a tree structure of geometry data. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, an encoding device, a decoding device, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program, or the like.