US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Oct. 14 for "Decoder for encoded tactile signal indicative of a tactile strength decoding frequency bands in the tactile signal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,280, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Decoder for encoded tactile signal indicative of a tactile strength decoding frequency bands in the tactile signal" was invented by Shuichiro Nishigori (Tokyo), Hirofumi Takeda (Tokyo), Takahiro Watanabe (Tokyo) and Shiro Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder according to the present technology includes a first decoding unit configured to, for encoded data obtained by encoding a tactile signal, decode a first band signal being a signal of a first frequency band in the tactile signal, the encoded data including data obtained by encoding the first band ...