US Patent Issued to ALPHATHETA on Sept. 2 for "Audio device, audio device playback control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,645, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ALPHATHETA Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Audio device, audio device playback control method, and program" was invented by Yoshinori Takei (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroyuki Isobe (Yokohama, Japan), Nao Takagi (Yokohama, Japan) and Naruhiro Sato (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an audio device including: a detector configured to detect a rotational angle of a rotary operation element; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the rotational angle, whether a rotation direction of the rotary operation element is reversed; and an effect playback controller configured to...