US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 13 for "Neural sidelobe canceller for target speech separation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,261, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Neural sidelobe canceller for target speech separation" was invented by Yuzhou Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Ali Abdollahzadeh Milani (Mountain View, Calif.), Tarun Pruthi (Fremont, Calif.) and Trausti Thor Kristjansson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system configured to perform neural sidelobe cancelling to achieve enhanced target speech separation. A device improves target speech separation by combining a fixed directional beamformer with a deep neural network (DNN) configured to (i) selectively enhance speech in one target direction, (ii...