US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 3 for "Generating restored spatial audio signals for occluded microphones" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,783, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Generating restored spatial audio signals for occluded microphones" was invented by Sanghyun Chi (San Diego), Dinesh Ramakrishnan (Irvine, Calif.) and Krishna Kumar Malthakal (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for performing spatial audio recording. For instance, a process can include detecting an occlusion for at least one audio frame of one or more audio frames associated with a spatial audio recording. During the spatial audio recording, the process can further include selecting, based on detection of the occlusion, ...