US Patent Issued to YAMAHA on April 7 for "Content data processing method and content data processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,366, issued on April 7, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Content data processing method and content data processing apparatus" was invented by Kentaro Noto (Hamamatsu, Japan), Katsumi Ishikawa (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Futoshi Shirakihara (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content data processing method generates a first-time code indicating an elapsed time from a start of the live event, generates first content data from first data, which includes the one of the audio or video data, received from the live event by adding, to the first data, the first-time code with a first start time and a first end tim...