US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on Oct. 21 for "Method and system for sound event localization and detection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,590, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Method and system for sound event localization and detection" was invented by Gordon Wichern (Cambridge, Mass.), Olga Slizovskaia (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jonathan Le Roux (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a system and method for localization of a target sound event. The system collects a first digital representation of an acoustic mixture of sounds of a plurality of sound events, by using an acoustic sensor. The system receives a second digital representation of a sou...