US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Oct. 20 for "Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, program, signal processing system, and encoding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,595, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, program, signal processing system, and encoding apparatus" was invented by Keiichi Osako (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Oikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuhki Mitsufuji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a signal processing apparatus having: a sound source separation unit configured to perform sound source separation on a mixed sound signal obtained by mixing a plurality of sound source signals; a sound source type determination unit configured to determine a type of a predetermined sound source signal obtained by t...