US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on April 29 for "Sound collection and emission apparatus, sound collection and emission method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,583, issued on April 29, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sound collection and emission apparatus, sound collection and emission method, and program" was invented by Kazunori Kobayashi (Tokyo), Hiroaki Ito (Tokyo) and Shin Murata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Audibility of an outside sound needed for a driver inside an automobile to apprehend a danger and obtain a grasp of a situation necessary for driving is improved. A sound collection and emission apparatus (10) emits, on the basis of an outside acoustic signal which emanates from a sound source outside an automobile (90) and arrives at the aut...