US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Multi-channel audio signal encoding and decoding method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,144, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-channel audio signal encoding and decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Zhi Wang (Beijing), Jiance Ding (Beijing), Bin Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhe Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-channel audio signal encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses (1100, 1300) are provided. This can reduce a quantity of bits of multi-channel side information, so that saved bits can be allocated to another functional module of an encoder, to improve quality of a reconstructed audio signal of a decoder side and improve coding qua...