ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,896, issued on March 18, was assigned to Renesas Design Netherlands B.V. ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands).
"Audio signal detector" was invented by Gavin Radolan (Merritt Island, Fla.), Yuan Chia Lu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih Chuan Chou (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ching-Hua Yeh (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio signal detector comprising: an input adapted to receive a transducer signal; an output to provide an output signal indicative of the presence of a voice component in the transducer signal; and a processor circuit adapted to estimate a noise characteristic of the transducer signal; detect a voice component of the tran...