ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,494, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing apparatus and method" was invented by Yuki Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to signal processing apparatus and method which can perform audio reproduction with a realistic feeling. A signal processing apparatus includes a sound source separation unit that extracts, from an input audio signal including a plurality of sound source signals, one or a plurality of the sound source signals by sound source separation; a position information generation unit that generates position information of the extracted soun...