ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,009, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Support for generation of comfort noise" was invented by Fredrik Jansson (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Erik Norvell (Upplands Vasby, Sweden) and Tomas Jansson Toftgard (Uppsala, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a transmitting node for supporting generation of comfort noise for at least two audio channels at a receiving node. The method is performed by a transmitting node. The method comprises determining spectral characteristics of audio signals on at least two input audio channels and determining a spatial coherence between the aud...