US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on July 15 for "Perceptually-based loss functions for audio encoding and decoding based on machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,956, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Perceptually-based loss functions for audio encoding and decoding based on machine learning" was invented by Roy M. Fejgin (San Francisco), Grant A. Davidson (Burlingame, Calif.), Chih-Wei Wu (San Francisco) and Vivek Kumar (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for training a neural network, as well as for implementing audio encoders and decoders via trained neural networks, are provided. The neural network may receive an input audio signal, generate an encoded audio signal and decode the encoded aud...