US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Feb. 4 for "Cheering support method, cheering support apparatus, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,188, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cheering support method, cheering support apparatus, and program" was invented by Kazunori Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The user communicates reactions to the distribution source without inputting character strings, and parties of an event naturally feel the reactions of the users so as not to disturb the progress. A cheering support device (2) reproduces, in a space of a distribution source, a cheering composed of an acoustic signal based on sounds generated by viewers in a plurality of spaces different from the space of the distr...