US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Aug. 12 for "Information processing device and information processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,177, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing program" was invented by Kenichi Komiya (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuhiko Ohtsu (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device for a web conference system includes a speaker to output sound, a microphone to receive sound, and a processor. The processor controls the speaker to output a predetermined tone and acquires first sound data from the microphone while the speaker outputting the predetermined tone. The processor sends the first sound data to another informati...