US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Manifold learning for sound field estimation" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,398, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Manifold learning for sound field estimation" was invented by Karim Helwani (San Mateo, Calif.), Michael Mark Goodwin (Scotts Valley, Calif.) and Paris Smaragdis (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are provided for estimating the sound field from partial observations. Estimating an acoustic environment for virtual reality and augmented reality applications is a step in the creation of simulated acoustic sound scenes. In particular, the impulse responses of room can be estimated with a generative model. In a teleconferencing scenar...