US Patent Issued to YAMAHA on July 15 for "Audio signal processing method and audio signal processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,496, issued on July 15, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Audio signal processing method and audio signal processing apparatus" was invented by Hiraku Okumura (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio signal processing method obtains a plurality of audio signals, determines a type of each audio signal of the plurality of audio signals, sets positions of a plurality of virtual speakers, generates, in a case where an audio signal among the plurality of audio signals is determined to be a first type, a first audio signal by performing localization processing on the audio signal determined to be the first ...