US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Sept. 1 for "Stereophonic sound image reproducing system for vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,782, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Stereophonic sound image reproducing system for vehicle" was invented by Hideaki Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stereophonic sound image reproducing system includes a sound reproducing apparatus and a vehicle sensor that detects a facial direction of a driver or a traveling direction of a vehicle. Before starting to generate a sound image, the sound reproducing apparatus sets a localization allowable angle range extending from a reference direction that is the facial direction of the driver or the traveling direction of the vehicle, and determines whether an...