US Patent Issued to Getac Technology on Aug. 19 for "Voice activity detection device and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,334, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Getac Technology Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Voice activity detection device and method" was invented by Jen-Ching Wei (Taipei, Taiwan) and Lu-Ting Ko (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice activity detection method includes a voice pickup module, a processing module coupled to the voice pickup module and a prompt module coupled to the processing module. The processing module is used to perform a voice activity detection method, including: receiving voice information by the voice pickup module; acquiring a volume value of the voice information by the processing module; determin...