ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,058, issued on May 13, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method" was invented by Yasunobu Murata (Tokyo), Kohei Asada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yushi Yamabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a signal processing apparatus including a surrounding sound signal acquisition unit, a NC (Noise Canceling) signal generation part, a cooped-up feeling elimination signal generation part, and an addition part. The surrounding sound signal acquisition unit collects a surrounding sound to generate a surrounding sound signal. The NC signal generation part generates a noise cance...