US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Oct. 7 for "Signal processing device and signal processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,219, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Signal processing device and signal processing method" was invented by Akira Harada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroyuki Ehara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This signal processing device is provided with a detection circuit for detecting a temporal variation in a time difference between channels of a stereo signal, and a control circuit for controlling the degree of smoothing of an inter-channel cross correlation function on the basis of the temporal variation in the time difference between the channels."

The...