US Patent Issued to ALPHATHETA on Jan. 20 for "Reproduction control device, program, and reproduction control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,041, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ALPHATHETA Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Reproduction control device, program, and reproduction control method" was invented by Yuuta Ishii (Yokohama, Japan), Kanta Koda (Yokohama, Japan), Akihide Hasegawa (Yokohama, Japan), Minoru Watanabe (Yokohama, Japan) and Hideki Miyata (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A playing controller includes: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire audio data associated with information regarding a play position in a music piece and text-related data associated with the information regarding the play position; an operation signal acquiring unit confi...