ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,770, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Signal processing device and signal processing method" was invented by Tatsuya Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuichi Motohashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and a program for enabling reduction of a processing load while ensuring safety. The signal processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire designation information indicating a designated portion to be encrypted in output data and an encryption processing unit configured to encr...