ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,589, issued on July 8, was assigned to DENTSU INC. (Tokyo).
"Movement sound generation system" was invented by Mihoko Hotta (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movement sound generation system (1) generates a movement sound when a moving body moves on a predetermined movement surface in a virtual space. A sound volume of the movement sound is decided based on a mass of the moving body in the virtual space. A sound quality of the movement sound is decided based on material information of a ground contacting portion of the moving body which contacts a movement surface in the virtual space, and on material information of the movement...