ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,183, issued on March 25.
"Sound generation apparatus" was invented by Katsunori Suetsugu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound generation apparatus includes sound collection means configured to collect a sound of a sound source in a space, image capture means configured to capture an image of the sound source, estimation means configured to estimate an attribute of the sound source from the image captured by the image capture means, sound generation means configured to obtain an acoustic characteristic of a target sound included in the sound collected by the sound collection means and to generate multiple masking sounds on t...