US Patent Issued to YOSHIMOTO CVC on June 23 for "Comic reproduction system with scroll direction-based sound reproduction control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,917, issued on June 23, was assigned to YOSHIMOTO CVC INC. (Tokyo).

"Comic reproduction system with scroll direction-based sound reproduction control" was invented by Kosuke Shindo (Tokyo) and Hideyuki Takei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a system or the like capable of providing more entertaining vertical scroll comics utilizing mobile terminal functionality. There is provided a comic reproduction system, using comic data including: comic data including backgrounds, characters, and speech balloons, which are prepared for a story to progress in a predetermined scroll direction; sound data including lines, mim...