US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 16 for "Method for learning mapping" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,660, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for learning mapping" was invented by Shinichi Takeuchi (Nisshin, Japan), Atsushi Tabata (Okazaki, Japan), Shingo Noritake (Owariasahi, Japan), Akira Murakami (Kasugai, Japan) and Ryo Yanagawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mapping, which is as a subject of learning, is a learning model that uses a sound signal as an input variable and outputs a variable indicating the cause of a sound in a vehicle. A learning method includes a signal correction process that corrects a sound signal by superimposing a noise signal on the sound signa...