US Patent Issued to YAMAHA on July 28 for "Computer-implemented bass enhancement method and bass enhancement apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,034, issued on July 28, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Computer-implemented bass enhancement method and bass enhancement apparatus" was invented by Go Matsunami (Hamamatsu, Japan), Nobuaki Himeno (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Masahiro Nakanishi (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented bass enhancement method includes: extracting, from an input audio signal including harmonic sound components and inharmonic sound components, an inharmonic sound signal representing the inharmonic sound components which are other than the harmonic sound components; generating, from the inharmonic sound signal, ...