US Patent Issued to PIONEER on Aug. 4 for "Sound output control device, sound output control method, and sound output control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,397, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to PIONEER Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sound output control device, sound output control method, and sound output control program" was invented by Hiromasa Tabuchi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound output control device includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires agent information provided from each of a plurality of applications having a voice agent function; a reporting control unit that causes a reporting unit to report a voice message to which different sound effects are imparted in accordance with an application of the plurality of applications, the different sound effects ar...