US Patent Issued to Sony Group on March 18 for "Apparatus and method for video-audio processing, and program for separating an object sound corresponding to a selected video object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,169, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for video-audio processing, and program for separating an object sound corresponding to a selected video object" was invented by Hiroyuki Honma (Chiba, Japan) and Yuki Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technique relates to an apparatus and a method for video-audio processing, and a program each of which enables a desired object sound to be more simply and accurately separated.A video-audio processing apparatus includes a display control portion configured to cause a video object based on a video signal to be displayed; a...