ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,144, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Guided speech enhancement network" was invented by George Chiachi Sung (San Diego), Yang Yang (San Diego), Shao-Fu Shih (Mountain View, Calif.), Hakan Erdogan (Lexington, Mass.) and Jamie Menjay Lin (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, as input, reference audio data representing a reference audio signal captured by an audio input device. The method also includes receiving, as input, from a beamformer, spatially-filtered audio data representing an output of the beamformer, the beamformer configured to spatially filter, based on...