US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 27 for "Suppression of noise caused by switching of audio source" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,280, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Suppression of noise caused by switching of audio source" was invented by Toshiyuki Aga (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Hideto Kimura (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Suppression of noise caused by switching of audio source is performed by receiving, while a speaker outputs audio from a first application, an instruction to output audio from a second application, muting audio output from the speaker in response to receiving the instruction, instructing an amplifier in communication with the speaker to associate a second channel with the second applicatio...