US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 12 for "Ear-worn device and reproduction method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,684, issued on May 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Ear-worn device and reproduction method" was invented by Shinichiro Kurihara (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ear-worn device includes: a microphone that obtains a sound and outputs a first sound signal of the sound obtained; a DSP that performs determination regarding an S/N ratio of the first sound signal, determination regarding a bandwidth with respect to a peak frequency in a power spectrum of the sound, and determination of whether the sound contains human voice, and outputs a second sound signal based on th...