ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,885, issued on April 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing apparatus, control method for signal processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Masanobu Funakoshi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing apparatus includes one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors executing the instructions to acquire a sound characteristic generated by vibration depending on a real-world object with which a virtual object is in contact, in a virtual-reality display in which an image of the virtual object is superimposed and displayed on a real-world image, apply t...