US Patent Issued to LAPIS Technology on Dec. 30 for "Audio reproduction device, audio reproduction LSI, and audio reproduction method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,461, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LAPIS Technology Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Audio reproduction device, audio reproduction LSI, and audio reproduction method" was invented by Yuuki Deguchi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio reproduction device includes a reproduction control part executing pitch fading processing of changing a frequency of audio during reproduction in stages or volume fading processing of changing a sound volume in stages, a pitch register storing a pitch setting value, a volume register storing a volume setting value, and a fading register storing a step setting value indicating a form...