US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Nov. 18 for "Sound processing device, sound system, and sound processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,295, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sound processing device, sound system, and sound processing method" was invented by Keita Tanno (Iwaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sound processing device includes the first processor that performs the trans-aural process on the signals corresponding to the plurality of headrest speakers so that a tentative sound image is localized by the plurality of headrest speakers at a tentative position within a region which does not include the front side of the head but includes the left and right sides and the back side of the head, and the second processor ...