US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on July 7 for "Acoustic reproduction method, recording medium, and acoustic reproduction device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,108, issued on July 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic reproduction method includes: obtaining information indicating sounds that reach a listener in a sound reproduction space and direction information indicating a direction in which the head of the listener is oriented; judging whether a first direction in which a first sound reaches the listener...