ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,730, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to D&M HOLDINGS INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Audio device" was invented by Yuji Ota (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To provide an audio device with which remote operation is possible without using a remote controller, even during audio output. [Solution] A wireless speaker 1 is provided with a speech command recognizing unit 17 which subjects a speech signal input into a microphone 11 to speech recognition processing to recognize an utterance of a listener, and detects a speech commands of the listener from the recognition result, and is additionally provided with; a motion com...