ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,777, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and method for outputting a target sound signal from a mixed sound signal" was invented by Ryo Aihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires sound source position information and so forth, a sound feature value extraction unit that extracts a plurality of sound feature values based on the mixed sound signal, an emphasis unit that emphasizes a sound feature value in a target sound direction based on the sound source position information, an estimation uni...