US Patent Issued to NTT on Nov. 25 for "Sound signal encoding method, sound signal encoder, program, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,473, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Sound signal encoding method, sound signal encoder, program, and recording medium" was invented by Takehiro Moriya (Tokyo), Ryosuke Sugiura (Tokyo) and Yutaka Kamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided such embedded encoding that the algorithmic delay of stereo coding/decoding is not larger than that of monaural coding/decoding. An encoding device (100) encodes a sound signal having a plurality of channels. A stereo encoding unit (110) obtains and outputs a stereo code representing a characteristic of difference between channels of the sound signal. A do...