US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on July 15 for "Tunable filtering of voice-related components from motion sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,160, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Tunable filtering of voice-related components from motion sensor" was invented by Steven Osman (San Mateo, Calif.), Olga Rudi (San Mateo, Calif.), Mahdi Azmandian (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jorge Arroyo Palacios (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To protect a user's privacy by reducing a malicious developer's ability to eavesdrop on unwitting HMD users by converting signals from a motion sensor in the HMD to speech or speaker recognition, a microphone can record ambient sound and voice which is subtracted from the motion sensor data befo...