ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,501, issued on Nov. 11, 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: "Audio encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses are disclosed, to reduce an amount of encoded and decoded data, so as to improve encoding and decoding efficiency. The method includes: selecting a first target virtual speaker from a preset virtual speaker set based on a first scene audio signal; generating a first vi...