US Patent Issued to HUAWEI TECHNOLGOIES on May 27 for "Multichannel audio signal processing method, apparatus, and system" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,522, issued on May 27, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLGOIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multichannel audio signal processing method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Zhe Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes a signal detection circuit and a signal encoding circuit. The signal encoding circuit is configured to encode the Nth-frame downmixed signal when the signal detection circuit detects that an Nth-frame downmixed signal includes a speech signal, or when the signal detection circuit detects that the Nth-frame downmixed signal does not include a speech signal, encode the Nth-frame downmixed signal whe...