US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 23 for "Signal processing device and signal processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,995, issued on June 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device and signal processing method" was invented by Takashi Fujioka (Tokyo), Takeshi Matsui (Tokyo), Tomoharu Kasahara (Tokyo), Keiichi Osako (Tokyo) and Takao Fukui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To satisfactorily perform processing of increasing the sound quality of a recorded sound source obtained by picking up vocal sound and musical instrument sound in a room. An output audio signal is obtained by a sound converter performing sound conversion processing on a recorded sound source (an input audio signal) obtained by picking up vocal sound...