US Patent Issued to Sony Group on May 5 for "Sound processing device, sound processing method, and hearing aid device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,615, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sound processing device, sound processing method, and hearing aid device" was invented by Osamu Nakamura (Saitama, Japan), Kenichi Makino (Kanagawa, Japan), Kyosuke Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinpei Tsuchiya (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound processing device that performs sound processing mainly for a hearing aid device is to be provided.The sound processing device includes: an information estimation unit that estimates control information, on the basis of hearing threshold information regarding a hearing threshold at each frequency, and input ...