US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Jan. 20 for "Method and apparatus in audio processing" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,077, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus in audio processing" was invented by Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for audio processing. In some examples, an apparatus of audio coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes, from a coded bitstream, information indicative of an adjusted speech signal and a loudness adjustment to the adjusted speech signal. The adjusted speech signal is indicated in an assoc...