US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 3 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for voice quality conversion" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,427, issued on March 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for voice quality conversion" was invented by Naoya Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, an effective voice quality conversion process is performed.An information processing apparatus includes: a voice quality conversion unit that performs sound source separation of a vocal signal and an accompaniment signal from a mixed sound signal and performs voice quality conversion using a result of the sound source separation."

The patent was filed on Feb. 9, 2022, under Applic...