US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 11 for "Detection and enhancement of speech in binaural recordings" (Chinese, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,516, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Detection and enhancement of speech in binaural recordings" was invented by Giulio Cengarle (Barcelona, Spain) and Yuanxing Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are method, systems, and computer-program products for segmenting a binaural recording of speech into parts containing self-speech and parts containing external speech, and processing each category with different settings, to obtain an enhanced overall presentation. The segmentation is based on a combination of: i) feature-bas...