US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Oct. 27 for "Information processing method, recording medium, and sound reproduction device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,308, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method includes: (i) determining whether a type of a predetermined sound and a type of an external sound match; (ii) determining whether the incoming direction of the predetermined sound and the incoming direction of the external sound overlap by comparing the incoming direction o...