ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,670, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Linear prediction analysis device, method, program, and storage medium" was invented by Yutaka Kamamoto (Atsugi, Japan), Takehiro Moriya (Atsugi, Japan) and Noboru Harada (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autocorrelation calculation unit 21 calculates an autocorrelation RO(i) from an input signal. A prediction coefficient calculation unit 23 performs linear prediction analysis by using a modified autocorrelation R'O(i) obtained by multiplying a coefficient wO(i) by the autocorrelation RO(i). It is assumed here, for each order i of so...