US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Aug. 12 for "Sound processing apparatus and sound processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,181, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sound processing apparatus and sound processing system" was invented by Yuki Yamamoto (Tokyo), Toru Chinen (Kanagawa, Japan), Runyu Shi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mitsuyuki Hatanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing system for enabling more stable localization of a sound image.A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-...