US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Oct. 14 for "Signal processing apparatus and method, acoustic reproduction apparatus, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,794, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing apparatus and method, acoustic reproduction apparatus, and program" was invented by Tetsu Magariyachi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuma Domae (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kana Seno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus and method, an acoustic reproduction apparatus, and a program that can achieve more realistic acoustic presentation. The signal processing apparatus includes an acoustic transfer characteristic convolution processing unit that convolves an acoustic transfer characteristic according to a ...