US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Feb. 17 for "Conversion device, conversion method, and conversion program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,332, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Conversion device, conversion method, and conversion program" was invented by Yukara Ikemiya (Kanagara, Japan) and Ryo Yokoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion device (100) according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit (131) that acquires a conversion source signal to be a source of a haptic signal; and a conversion unit (132) that converts the conversion source signal acquired by the acquisition unit into an intermediate representation signal represented by at least one parameter. For example, the conversion unit s...