ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,261, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device and signal processing method" was invented by Daisuke Irie (Tokyo) and Shuichi Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quality improvement processing to which a learning result is applied can be performed appropriately even if the signal characteristics of an input signal are different from the signal characteristics of student data at the time of learning. A quality improvement processing unit applies quality improvement processing to an input signal to obtain an output signal using a learning result obtained using a signal of a first...