ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,397, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device, signal processing method, and signal processing system" was invented by Hiroshi Imamura (Tokyo), Toru Nagara (Tokyo), Seishi Tomonaga (Tokyo), Takashi Takamatsu (Tokyo), Koji Nagata (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a signal processing device that includes a setting unit to set a recognition method for recognizing an operation using a gesture on the basis of first vibration data indicating vibrations predicted to occur in the future, and an operation recognition unit to recognize the operation indi...