US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 25 for "Information processing device, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,501, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Shin Norieda (Tokyo), Kenta Fukuoka (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aim of the present invention is to provide an information processing device whereby a user can be made aware of the audio transmission range in a situation where a virtual space is used and users communicate with each other. This information processing device includes: a detection unit that detects audio generated by a user operating an avatar inside a vir...