US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Feb. 24 for "Tactile signal generation device and tactile signal generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,037, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tactile signal generation device and tactile signal generation method" was invented by Hirofumi Takeda (Tokyo), Shuichiro Nishigori (Tokyo) and Rina Kotani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tactile signal generation device includes a tactile signal generation unit that generates a tactile signal for providing a tactile stimulus to a user on the basis of musical characteristics of an audio signal or staging characteristics of a video signal."

The patent was filed on Feb. 28, 2022, under Application No. 18/566,871.

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