ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,807, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transmission apparatus, communication method and program" was invented by Chihiro Takayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission device used on a receiver side in a communication system for communication between a talker and a receiver includes a processing unit that processes voice data obtained from speech of the talker to generate information data corresponding to the voice data, a pseudo video generation unit that generates pseudo video data having a playback time length corresponding to a length of a delay time caused by the pro...