ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,617, issued on July 8, was assigned to DTS Inc. (Calabasas, Calif.).
"Context-aware voice intelligibility enhancement" was invented by Daekyoung Noh (Calabasas, Calif.), Pavel Chubarev (Calabasas, Calif.) and Xiaoyu Guo (Calabasas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: detecting noise in an environment with a microphone to produce a noise signal; receiving a voice signal to be played into the environment through a loudspeaker; performing multiband correction of the noise signal based on a microphone transfer function of the microphone, to produce a corrected noise signal; performing multiband correction of the voic...