US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on April 29 for "Acoustic reproduction method, recording medium, and acoustic reproduction device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,587, issued on April 29, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Acoustic reproduction method, recording medium, and acoustic reproduction device" was invented by Hikaru Usami (Osaka, Japan) and Tomokazu Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic reproduction method includes: acquiring a first audio signal corresponding to an ambient sound that arrives at a listener from a first range in a sound reproduction space and a second audio signal corresponding to a target sound that arrives at the listener from a point in the sound reproduction space; acquiring direct...