US Patent Issued to NTT on Sept. 1 for "Noise cancelling apparatus, noise cancelling method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,600, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Noise cancelling apparatus, noise cancelling method, and program" was invented by Shin Murata (Tokyo), Yohei Wakisaka (Tokyo), Noriyoshi Kamado (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noise suppression technique which allows a user to recognize that a specific event occurs when the event that the user needs to be aware of occurs even during a process of suppressing noise around the user is provided. When the noise around the user includes a sound originating from a predetermined event (hereinafter referred to as "event sound"), a noise suppression devi...