US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Aug. 25 for "Acoustic reproduction method, acoustic reproduction device, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,272, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Acoustic reproduction method, acoustic reproduction device, and recording medium" was invented by Seigo Enomoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomokazu Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic reproduction method includes: localizing a first sound image at a first position in a target space in which a user is present; and localizing, at a second position in the target space, a second sound image that represents an anchor sound for indicating a reference position."

The patent was filed on Sept. 11, 2024, un...