US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Aug. 26 for "Method for processing an audio signal, method for controlling an apparatus and associated system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,642, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for processing an audio signal, method for controlling an apparatus and associated system" was invented by Soeren Kuhrt (Erlangen, Germany) and Iwona Markuszewska (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for processing an audio signal, the audio signal is continuously analyzed substantially in real time from a recognized beginning of the speech input to provide a speech analysis result. The speech analysis result is used to dynamically define an end of the speech input. A speech data stream is provided based on the audio...