US Patent Issued to Sony Group on May 5 for "Signal processing device, signal processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,627, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device, signal processing method, and program" was invented by Ryuichi Namba (Tokyo), Makoto Akune (Tokyo), Keiichi Aoyama (Tokyo) and Yoshiaki Oikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a signal processing device, signal processing method, and program capable of providing a higher realistic feeling.A signal processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires audio data of an audio object and metadata including position information indicating a position of the audio object and direction information ...