US Patent Issued to Sony Group on May 6 for "Information processing apparatus and method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,923, issued on May 6, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and method, and program" was invented by Keiichi Osako (Tokyo) and Yuhki Mitsufuji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus and method, and a program, which are capable of conducting a search more easily and at a higher speed. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to designate a designated section and a designated sound source of an audio signal including sounds of a plurality of sound sources, and configured to obtain a search result of a sound source signal similar to a...