ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,212, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Audio encoding and decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Yuan Gao (Beijing), Shuai Liu (Beijing), Bin Wang (Shenzhen, China), Zhe Wang (Beijing), Tianshu Qu (Beijing) and Jiahao Xu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio encoding and decoding method and apparatus, and a non-transitory readable storage medium are provided. The encoding method includes: selecting a first target virtual speaker from a preset virtual speaker set based on a current scene audio signal; generating a first virtual speaker signal based on the current scen...