US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 9 for "Sound field control device and filter determination system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,908, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sound field control device and filter determination system" was invented by Xun Wang (Wako, Japan) and Toshio Inoue (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sound field control device including: a non-control-target component extractor configured to extract a non-control-target component from a sound source signal; a speaker selector configured to select one of plural speakers as a speaker to output the non-control-target component, based on the location of the listening area; a control-target component extractor configured to extract a control-t...