US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on June 3 for "Method and apparatus for data augmentation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,377, issued on June 3, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for data augmentation" was invented by Byung-Ok Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeon-Gue Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyung-Bae Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for data augmentation, which includes pretraining latent variables using first data corresponding to target speech and second data corresponding to general speech, training data augmentation parameters by receiving the first data and the second data as input, and augmenting target data u...