ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,017, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Processing audio signals" was invented by Zhengyi Xu (Fleet, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application describe a data processing system and associated methods for processing received speech data. The data processing system comprises: a classification unit configured to receive data derived from an audio signal and, based on the received data, to determine a classification state of an acoustic environment; wherein access to a subsequent processing unit is controlled based on the classification state of the acoustic environment. The classific...