US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 15 for "Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,782, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method" was invented by Takayuki Yamada (Tokyo), Takayuki Oono (Tokyo) and Shuto Naruse (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program capable of extending a communication distance while reducing a signal delay in contactless communication.The signal processing apparatus performs filter processing on a signal received from a reader/writer via a first antenna, and transmits the signal to a card serving as a contactless communic...