ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,946, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Control device that provides tactile stimulus" was invented by Osamu Ito (Tokyo), Ikuo Yamano (Tokyo), Takuro Noda (Tokyo) and Ryo Yokoyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a reproduction unit that causes stereo speakers of an aural-tactile presentation device to output sound on the basis of sound data and causes tactile presentation units provided corresponding to the respective stereo speakers in the aural-tactile presentation device to provide a tactile stimulus on the basis of tactile data, and a switching control unit that switches,...