US Patent Issued to Yamaha on July 8 for "Sound processing method, sound processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing sound processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,176, issued on July 8, was assigned to Yamaha Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Sound processing method, sound processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing sound processing program" was invented by Akihiro Miwa (Kosai, Japan) and Kenichi Tanaka (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound processing method includes obtaining an image of an acoustic space, setting a plane in the acoustic space using the image, setting a virtual speaker in the image of the acoustic space, calculating sound pressure distribution to the plane using characteristics of the virtual speaker, and overlapping the sound ...