ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,909, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd. (London).
"System and method for controlling audio" was invented by Joe Thwaites (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising: an event detection unit, configured to detect a significant event associated with a video game environment and to selectively output an indication of a detected event; and a separation unit configured to perform source separation on music in playback in dependence upon the indication from the event detection unit, and an audio output unit configured to output for playback audio derived from the result of source ...