US Patent Issued to Honda Motor, KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY on July 1 for "Acoustic processing device, acoustic processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,938, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Acoustic processing device, acoustic processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Kazuhiro Nakadai (Wako, Japan), Masayuki Takigahira (Wako, Japan) and Hirofumi Nakajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage unit stores a first transfer function representing a transfer characteristic of a sound from a sound source for each sound source direction, a sound source direction estimating unit calculates a conversion coefficient of an acoustic signal for each channel in a frequency domain and a spatial spectrum for each s...