ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,090, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Audio control system, audio control method, and recording medium" was invented by Junichi Ikeda (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio control system includes: an obtainer that obtains sound data indicating a sound picked up by a microphone disposed in a second space located in an area surrounding a first space used by a person; a storage in which sound source data is stored; and a controller that causes a loudspeaker disposed in the first space or the second space to reproduce an audio obtained from the sound s...