ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,779, issued on June 3, was assigned to Himax Technologies Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).
"Sound source localization system" was invented by Ti-Wen Tang (Tainan, Taiwan), Tzu-Hsu Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Chin-Kuei Hsu (Tainan, Taiwan) and Ching-Han Chou (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound source localization system includes a microphone array composed of a plurality of microphones each converting sound wave into a corresponding voice signal; a room shape estimator that determines a room shape including a location map and a corresponding template voice feature map composed of template voice features associated with a virtual so...