US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on June 24 for "Reproduction apparatus, method and program for the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,115, issued on June 24, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Reproduction apparatus, method and program for the same" was invented by Kazunori Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Ryotaro Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reproduction apparatus that realizes reproduction of which sound leakage is small with use of a speaker installed near a head, and a method and a program thereof are provided. The reproduction apparatus is used in a seat. The reproduction apparatus includes: at least two speakers; an acquisition unit that acquires, from a predetermined sound source, an acoustic signal of which sound is emitted ...