US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 17 for "Acoustic reproduction apparatus, signal processing apparatus, and signal processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,045, issued on June 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Acoustic reproduction apparatus, signal processing apparatus, and signal processing method" was invented by Shogo Shinkai (Tokyo), Hayami Tobise (Tokyo), Shun Katsuyama (Tokyo), Mahendra Kodavati (Tokyo) and Takuma Fukunaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an acoustic reproduction apparatus, including a first microphone to be used for noise cancellation processing using a feedback scheme, a second microphone including a sound collection surface in a direction different from a direction of a sound collection surface of the first microphone and to be us...