US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 29 for "Enhanced user experience through bi-directional audio and visual signal generation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,366, issued on April 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enhanced user experience through bi-directional audio and visual signal generation" was invented by Sunando Sengupta (Reading, Great Britain), Alexandros Neofytou (London), Eric Chris Wolfgang Sommerlade (Oxford, Great Britain) and Yang Liu (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method of training a neural network for creating an output signal of different modality from an input signal is described. In embodiments, the first modality may be a sound signal or a visual image and wh...