ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,460, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Acoustic processing device and acoustic processing method" was invented by Kazuhiro Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masafumi Tao (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic processing device mountable on a vehicle, the acoustic processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, and when executing a program stored in the memory, performs operations. The operations include: outputting a noise level obtained by subtracting a sound source level from a microphone level; outputting a velocity noise leve...